Art - a privilege

Art and K-Mart

Went to the art gallery today, and trying to park our car we realised how expensive parking was going to be, 

$12 per hour or $9 per hour, that was the choice, and we needed at least a couple of hours to do any justice to the visit. 

IN the art gallery, spent time  looking at the huge or the miniature paintings, the play of colours, and shade, the light and shadow, the classics, the aboriginal art, the cubism, it was all just so beautiful, educational, a taste of culture, refined and classy.

and the gallery was so quiet, and serene, not many people at that hour of a working day, 

then a few students from a neighbouring school arrived and started to work on an assignment, going around, looking at some paintings, and taking notes, quietly working.

The cafeteria, and the small eating area upstairs, dainty sandwiches, and Arancini balls, washed down with chilled white wine, or steamy pots of tea, expensive, nothing was cheap! 

And I was thinking of the type of people in the gallery, and the high end art!

and then those who go to the West-field or the Stock-land mall, 

after school, kids running around, mothers shopping, at the Coles, and K Mart!

there is food, in the food court, served in big piles, quite cheap, delicious and of such variety.

where parking for three hours is free, 

Our society in fact is divided

places for some, and some other places for some others!

And some in both, never belonging to either!!