Pompeii exhibition at British Museum

..I remember vividly the first history talk I had to give in secondary school about “Pompeii”, I was touched by the story, ever since wanted to visit Pompeii but have not managed it yet. I had to go and visit the current exhibition at the British Museum. Walking through the rooms that explained in depth life in Pompeii my heart sunk, I was not very much interested in all of that and wondered why that was? Was I hanging on to some sentimental memory, having high expectations of what I would come across? Then I walked into a room with the cast of a woman in resin and BANG that was it!!

…the posture, the expression on her face, so vulnerable, death from one second to the other, I knew then that was why I wanted to come here to be able to observe how humans deal with instant horror, to quick to think, to quick to respond…pure instinct so tangible.