TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Sunday, August 17, 2003

12:42 PM
Posted by jodi rose

George Paton Gallery
Minding the show for discovery day - hundreds of bright-eyed potential melbourne uni students wandering through with a cursory glance at the walls.
I'm having that sense of anti-climax, when you've put lots of work and energy into something, been completely focused on it and then once everything is done, you're like, ok what now? Talking to a friend at a party last night, who said, yes, you expect accolades, the world to be laid at your feet.... and nothing changes. Rose Byrne in an interview said the same thing, it's very hard adjusting to regular life again - not that I'm every gonna be a movie star or anything. Very painful having photos taken for various publications, which may or may not every run their stories. I did turn up in the fine herlad-sun publication mx this week, in a decidely unflattering photo. Oh well, time for some transformation. On to the next phase of the project, getting the CD together and finishing my thesis. Yes, that old thing!
The opening night was fun, lots of people and champagne, with unexpected appearances from old friends and associates, like the gorgeous kimba and ryan, and a lovely girl I met in a clothes shop on brunswick st after installing the work on sunday, while philippa and I waited for our take-away from the veggie bar. Didn't even have too bad a hangover, although people kept bringing me glasses of champagne. Woke up early and full of energy the next morning and walked up to smith st for breakfast supplies, found the best stencil wall in fitzroy - as the guy from a cafe who had a really cool muscular sleek seal-like dog informed me. Lovely short story about a cat, and this 'we are each here to fill our own small silence with dancing." very inspiring, I love street art. Hope to make something unexpected for people to stumble onto where you can hear the sound of the cables while walking across, preferably in spain on one of santiago calatrava's bridges.