here come de judge

yesterday culturally challenging as I was called to judge an art competition.

The occasion was the Concours Jeunes and the brief was Appropriez-vous et réinterpretez une oeuvre de votre musée. Its a Languedoc-Roussillon event for all the museums and Tillings own Hat Museum was entering.

So, there are eight people, some of whom may be judges, looking at the work of nine children. There was Edith from the Atelier, Annie-the-potter(not a judge), Maitre Itier (or the other one, this was the blonde no-makeup one, I get their names mixed up), Msr. Reynaud (from the museum and not a judge), an intern from Toulouse, a bloke I didn't know and the young man who'd organised it all.

We selected a clay hat with a lizard on it. Then we selected two coloured-in drawings of hats.

Lastly we chose a short story which was quite gripping and involved satanism in the museum, an Occitan sorcerer, police surveillance, misuse of hat making equipment and a deal besides.

Now the pride of Tilling Youth get sent to Montpellier for the finals. Good luck to them - everyone else got a cassquette, which anywhere else is a baseball cap.

The above image is a locker spotted at Les Abbatoirs in Toulouse.