TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

3:26 PM
Posted by jodi rose

It's all very.... existential here today. Being..... and time. Remarkable challenge just being upright - think those 2 weeks in Sydney have worn me out already. Not to mention all the strain of organising work for a performance and exhibition in Helsinki, and now Stockholm as well. In the Sauna gallery, which sounds promising!
Dreaming of crawling into bed in crisp white hotel sheets and doing nothing except yoga for a week, ordering room service and taking long baths. Mmmmmmm.
Doing this 'locative media' workshop next month has got me thinking about location - how the place where you ARE is central in defining certain aspects of your daily life - from the people you see and food you eat to the expectations you have of the world. And no matter how far you stretch out into the world via the internet, telephone, books, or tv, you are still where you are. It's one of the central themes of my life right now - that struggle to come to terms with being in your body, located in a place and time. Somehow relates to this beautiful work by David Crawford, another Pixelache04 participant. Photographic studies of people on public transport, poetic, dreamy, very much in the moment.

http://www.stopmotionstudies.net

All the things I was missing about Sydney now seem to be much more a part of my life in Melbourne. It's very confusing. Especially with so much travel and movement, the desire to be still and settled is somewhat incongruent with the current life plan and momentum. I guess there will be plenty of time to stay in one place when I'm old..... Or maybe not even then. This week I'm dreaming of bridges in Sweden - the Hoga Kusten Bron (High Coast Bridge) in the Kramfors district, and Spain - the Sancho El Mayor Bridge, near Tuleda in Navarra over the Rio Ebro.
Time to go and interview an anonymous rock climber about the Indooroopilly Bridge (aka Walter Taylor Bridge) in Brisbane. I had a great time at the Macintyre bridge in Geelong, accosted people walking across and did vox pops about their experience of the bridge, and a more extensive interview with Peter Alsop, the President of the Geelong Historical Society.