TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, June 4, 2004

12:17 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Woke up this morning with the urge to clean my desk - incredible! Mission accomplished, I am now sitting writing on the laptop, occasionally gazing out the window or soaking up the sun. Recovering from a cold/flu bug, not too severe this time but still enough to make me rest for a few days.
I've almost succeeded in pulling focus back to the present and my actual physical location - living room yoga this morning helped - and hope to get some actual work done soon. It's a little frustrating having so much to do and being all over the place in the head. Mostly in Helsinki - there's so much happening over there, projects I am nominally involved in, but the distance thing is an issue. Even in this highly networked world. The Biennale of Sydney opened last night, I'm going to check out some art and talks this weekend. Reason and Emotion, is the theme - how apt :) Is that even a word? ept, apt, I don't know any more. nothing makes any sense. Almost on top of the demons that launched a surprise attack last week, and feeling that all the ideas I'm dreaming up actually ARE possible. What I really need is a little inflatable/deflatable space pod, that I can have set up with all my stuff and just pack it up into a suitcase size for the plane or bus or ferry transit, and then POP it infolds and inflates into a studio/bedroom in any location. Provide housing, work space, all the equipment and reading and clothes and sound gear etc that I need, right there.
Yes, the issue of being nomadic is still something I am coming to terms with. I think it helps if you have a stable base somewhere in the world, even just a small patch of land with a container on it to leave stuff in and come back to. Ideally, of course, it would be a character and light-filled cottage right by the ocean - a wild, dramatic seascape - with interesting people nearby and plenty of opportunities for creative work and relaxation.

Dream on. As we have seen, if you can dream it, you can make it happen.