My commune day went just as planned.

My group meeting point was at the British Museum, we met at the entrance then proceeded inside together to find rooms 42-43 where the Islamic world exhibition was.

It was my groups first time visiting the British Museum, specifically an exhibition about the Arab world and they told me that they liked it. 

As for me, I found it extremely enriching and I got to know so much about the history of my culture that I did not know. 

I discovered so much more about the history of the architecture and the way all the little details in the designs are made and the part that amazed me the most that I think I'd like to carry with me to unit 7 is the calligraphy and the geometric patterns design.

These 2 are both everywhere in the Arab world, no matter which country you visit. 

I think these 2 very important factors of the Art and Design world are not recognized enough and I want to change that, maybe as a first step then see where it leads me. 

While we were looking through both exhibitions, I was carefully noticing these details and how hard it was to recreate them but I tried and I can somehow say it's a good start.

We followed our manifestos rules during my commune day whereas we broke our daily routines and we visited 2 new museums .

We were inspired by the rich culture we saw at the exhibition and we were open-minded and left the stereotypical idea of the Arab world behind once we went into the exhibition. 

For Raghavi's plan, we went to the V&A Museum as well and went for an LGBT tour where we got a chance to take a look at works of art related to LGBTQ artists like Grayson Perry and Goldin Nan.

These 2 artists were my favorite of the exhibition. 

The photograph below is one by Goldin Nan called "Jimmy Paulette on David's bike". It was photographed in 1991 and the photograph is mainly to record the history of a group on the margins of society since Jimmy Paulette and his community were gay and cross dressers.

The vase I photographed below is by Perry Grayson and it is part of a collection called "My Heroes" made in 1994. This artist uses a decorative object to explore complex, personal themes whereas the vase portrays a transsexual model.

I really enjoyed the tour while keeping an open mind and being inspired. 

Later on during the night, we had plans to go out for dinner in a gay restaurant called "The yard bar" and then we went to a gay club called "Heaven".

It was a really fun night and we broke our routines and experienced something new.

For Ruvella's plan we went to Saatchi Gallery and experimented observing artworks with tinted glasses that made it black and white. 

We did this experience on artworks by Jean Francois and Chantel Joffe.

We went into the gallery wearing glasses so everything showed as black and white then after a while, we took them off and we observed the artwork in their real colors.

This task made us reflect on being color blind and how it feels. 

I feel like being color blind of course has its disadvantages but is not so bad when it comes to living normally. 

I do feel like it might stand in the way of seeing stains on clothes, or telling if the food is cooked enough but I don't feel like it's something color blind people suffer with every single day.