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Paris Holiday season

Jill visits Leigh during the 2009-2010 Christmas and New Year holiday season.

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Leigh finishes off some work at the office.

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paris holiday season-01

The newish MAC/VAL contemporary art museum located in one of Paris' suburbs. This piece is from a temporary exhibit of Simon Starling.

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paris holiday season-02

A Christmas eve wander across the Pont Neuf, before rainfall.

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paris holiday season-03

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paris holiday season-04

On Christmas day the streets are pretty empty. We had no real reason to go out but just wanted to check the status of things.

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paris holiday season-05

Leigh pouring the Christmas wine that accompanied our home cooked feast.

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paris holiday season-06

On Boxing Day, a walk through Parc de Buttes-Chaumont. Leigh's been many times but he wanted to show it to me.

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paris holiday season-07

View of Montmatre and the Sacre Coeur from the hill in Parc de Buttes-Chaumont.

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paris holiday season-08

Looking down from Centre Pompidou's observation deck towards the red brick building (IRCAM) where Leigh works. Between the building and the fountains you can see some glass panels on the ground, those are actually the skylights for Leigh's cubicle.

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paris holiday season-09

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paris holiday season-10

At Centre Pompidou, Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel. We wound up visiting the museum three separate times to see several temporary exhibits and the vast main modern art collection.

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paris holiday season-11

Leigh engages in one of three interactive sculptures in the elles@centrepompidou exhibit.