The National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpar, 13th May

In step two aussie girls:
One a blatant tourist
aware of her ignorance
violent, impolite,
in her snatching curiosity.

The other, all travel shame,
sees only her bruised Lonely Planet,
that light catamaran
that will skim over these Malay waters
but won't sink in
until it stops at port.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Art_Gallery_%28Malaysia%29

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/malaysia

Museum of Islam, Melakka, 5th May

Next door at the architecture museum they didn't mention the spiritual significance of decorative roof lattice. That shape represents the relationship between god and man, this one man and earth.

Museum of Malaysian Architecture, Melakka, 5th May

Post-colonialism:
neo-classicism restored to suit the tourists
and airconditioned to suit the tropics.