TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

VIEWING ALL POSTS FOR: JULY 2003

Tuesday, July 22, 2003

3:30 PM
Posted by jodi rose

well it's all much smoother now. post-birthday, ready to unleash my ideas on an unsuspecting world!! I laughed, I cried, I joined a lawn bowls club - not in any kind of ironic secret life/crackerjack way either, but because it's a 'flamin great game' as john the club secretary says. planning on going up to the lucky number draw and evening bowls on a friday night in summer, and meeting new people.
this week have finally succumbed to the delirium of my creative process - creating musical scores on technical drawings of bridges. reading some theory, Jung was fun, he says the creative urge is close to a 'pathological state', although luckily not identical. He also describes the creative urge as being a living being inside the artist, that takes over part of the psyche in an 'autonomous complex' and transcends the artist's conscious intention. so there you go.
a little bit of Jung for you "thoughts that can only be apprehended intuitively, a language pregnant with meanings, and images that are true symbols because they are the best possible expressions for something unknown - bridges thrown out towards an unseen shore." gorgeous, I love a good philosophical bridge moment.
This week I also read an article by jane rendell, mentioning the French philosopher Michel Serres who talks about bridges and angels. "Certain places of transition or interchange, such as airports, other places of mass transit and sites of new technologies are the 'passing places of angels.' .. it is in such spaces that messages from angels increase in number and intensity. Serres notes that angels are the personification of prepositions, those small words that make connections between people, objects and places... Bridges operate much like prepositions - they make links between two. As places of mediation, of encounter and crossing, bridges are for me very much connected with angels. Within religious Scripture angels are spirits or heavenly beings who mediate between human and divine realms. Like Hermes, the Greek god with winged feet, angels are messengers, and also figures of transformation; the messages they bear can change things." (from Bridge: The Architecture of Connection, Lucy Blakstad 2002)

Friday, July 11, 2003

4:50 PM
Posted by jodi rose

talkin loud, sayin nothin. Yeah man I feel like jaaaaaaaames brown. not better than, very flat. like a pancake. it's annoying, cause my stars all say that I'm riding a wave of great fortune and amazing aspects and lots of good things are coming - well, they don't seem to be here yet. maybe I need to practise being grateful for all the blessings and abundance I already have..... what was it again?
maybe I'm just tired - staying at a friends place on the main road, very noisy at 3a,m 6.30am and then all morning. got back late last night from john and kim's, tales of barcelona and lots of photos of crick, nigel and papabubble. it felt like being there.
not getting very far with the making art thing, oh well, no doubt I'll throw something together at the last minute. slapdash as usual. tried to panic early and get working a month ago, but no no no. the muse can't be tricked. she's coming out when she's good and ready. what else. not much. birthday in a week, no plans, since most of my friends don't even turn up when I invite them anywhere, why should it being my birthday be any different. (oh sookie la la I know) hoping to get my spark back soon.

Wednesday, July 02, 2003

10:52 AM
Posted by jodi rose

Everythings's changed on blogger. it's very disconcerting. not sure where am I.
still a bit fuzzy this morning anyway, had strange dreams and the emotional atmosphere is clustering around me. need to go for a brisk walk in the cold morning air to clear my head. lots to do - suddenly became very busy which is good, but strange. and still those ends are not quite meeting. the joys of an artists life. if I could just learn to be more frugal.
solo exhibition coming up in august - panic early, panic often! trying to sit down at my computer and play with sounds, but the days keep slipping by. need to velcro them together to get some continuity. work is excellent, still loving the sculptors, it makes me very happy being there. trying to do creative work at the desk in my bedroom (still) surrounded by mess, doesn't.
loggin off now to go play with the lovely luscious sole and ben who are in town for another few hours, from sydney, get all loved up with lots of big bear hugs, the ones close longterm (didn't want to say 'old' cause we're not) friends can really give - and receive. then meeting at the gallery and an opening tonight at anna schwartz and after that a band at the builders arms - philippa works with one of them, so it's another friends gig. must go out and see music that isn't played by someone I know one of these days.