TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

12:45 AM
Posted by jodi rose

'home is just a river of goodbyes', sang keren ann to me on the stansted express this morning, where I was overcome by inexplicable sadness. leaving again.

london a blur of markets, seething humanity and gleaming shops.
walked across the millennium bridge to tate modern on sunday, enjoyed the white boxes and peoples responses 'this is modern art?!?!.. it's a pile of boxes' ahh whatever gets the kids thinking. I actually liked the work, rising like an iceberg above the walkway, and even more when guyan tells me this evening it was a response to the death of her mother (being surrounded by boxes, the detritus of a life) followed by a time in the arctic circle and all that whiteness. Something resonant in the piece for me, and I guess being nomadic and constantly dealing with stuff in boxes, I liked their sheer scale.
that was the only art I saw, philippa and I recovered from trips to portobello rd and spitalfields market with a coffee in the members lounge, and then crossed the bridge again and went home.

Maintaining my guard duty on various rivers and bridges, it's metaphysical protection, and my thoughts are with maria valeria.
Today arrived Glasgow and left my bags with the lovely boys at 55 degrees, then wandered across to the south side of the clyde. A vastly different river scape, abandoned piers and towering motorway, stark contrast to the gorgeous green basilica and bridge of my small town.
Friday's guarding took place via Novy Most in bratislava, still on the Danube. Sat next to a group of young men on ryan air flight, going to work in the UK from the town of Orava, it was their first trip in a plane, one spoke no english - wished them luck. Found it a little sad to see the other side, where I have been talking to people in their home environment about these experiences in the UK, seeing them setting out in a brave new world. English TV a strange mix of biting political satire 'in the thick of it' followed by news of lib-dem candidates dirt-digging profiles that seemed like parody.
Invited to a Burns night this week, and hopefully Australia day party.
Excellent meeting with key creative team about bridge project here, need to be flexible and adapt to new possibilities.
Guyan suggested creating a steering committee as a possible strategy to structure the ongoing project management, and also pin me down to a place. I just love the idea of having someone steering.