Sunday time – lazy time
What a Sunday was recent Sunday. Something I really needed - good rest, big inspiration, tasty food, and ofcourse - RAIN here in Moscow, where I'm staying from time to time. After a week full of sitting in front of monitor and illustrating a Math school book for grammar school students, I finally got a chance to escape my room and have some real rest. It all started with a french film 'Mammuth' (starring Gérard Depardieu Mammuth Yolande Morreau, Anna Mouglalis, Isabelle Adjani, Benoit Poelvoorde and Miss Ming) in old Soviet-era cinema 'Kinocentr na Krasnoj Presne',
a so-so story where a character of G.Depardieu is searching for his new poetic himself while traveling to places of his youth in France. Although not the best film in history of cinematography, but good enough for lazy Sunday morning with a big paper-glass of Pepsi in one hand and ice-cream in another.
So after seeing a film me and my bf somehow appeared next to the entrance to Moscows Zoo across the street from the cinema, and the Zoo, as appeared later, was not as small as we thought at first.. Well first of all, as it was Sunday, people from all around Russia, visiting the capital, were the dominating part of visitors there, which was interesting to observe, as most of them found it necessary to take pictures of every creature posing next to it.
Secondly, why why WHY would you put a fun-fair stuff next to a cage of the tiger? So that was a bit surreal as I didn't expect to see plastic cars or spaceships in a Zoo.
And thirdly - some of the
aviaries were very small, too small in my opinion. So besides all that, its a pretty big zoo with a variety of creatures and most fascinating for me was to observe all those birds, reminding fairy-tales or folk-tales about bird of happiness and all other magic birds. Very inspirational. Also I saw a cat, which somehow came into zoo, found a piece of grass in front of zebra's yard and enjoyed all the attention she got, as people started to feed and flatter her. I've never seen anyone more high than that cat, who accidentally got all that attention, in my life.
Some other surreal thing - THE TERRARIUM made out of an old soviet-era building, strangely enough, reminding a small cinema somewhere in the province. Look at the typography!!
Well anyway, besides all that, the day in the zoo was interrupted by
a massive rain, which was great.
In conclusion, great experience, a lot of inspiration for illustrations, as I haven't been in a Zoo for ages, but on other hand in the end it became a bit sad, as some of the animals looked sad, especially monkeys, who, I can swear, were looking to people from behind the glass in the same manner as people where looking at them. So who is an animal behind the glass after all?
and so the day ended in Shtolle cafe, eating all those wonderful pies (pierogi) that I've wrote about in my recent Moscow-life-style post
HERE. I was so tired, I could barely walk back to metro, but you know, I can't complain, as I had a long-waited Sunday without a computer monitor in front of me.
