TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

5:47 PM
Posted by jodi rose

The dirty blues band delivered an evening of appropriately swampy rhythms, and Hollywood Rose provided a fair simulacrum of the original. Played my favourites - of the genre - sweet child and their version of knocking on heavens door - as twilight meandered over the Danube. Wonderful stormy evening, had a magnificent swim as the thunder burst and rain intensified, until finally the plavcik blew the whistle and we all had to get out. Avoiding being electrified in case of lightning strike I guess.

One last evening talking nonsense, more or less, with english speaking cohorts at the green, discussed focus and lack thereof. The problem with being an artist is that when you lose motivation, no-one else is really affected, unlike running a business. No one else relies on you, or actually requires your services... some people may be disappointed or hope for more, but ultimately the artist is the one who it really matters to. Also when you are doing something as esoteric as art with no intrinsic useful purpose or monetary value, except as informed by the vagaries of fashion and notoriously unpredictable art market - then if you lose your belief in what you are doing, it is truly lost. Which makes it all the more essential to maintain a strong sense of self-belief and faith in what you do. And keep getting up in the morning.

The town had emptied out this morning, but a new batch of holiday makers arrived in the afternoon. Starting to see the patterns of behaviour. One last iced coffee at my favourite cafes, and thats all folks.

I have already charted my route in berlin, from spandau bahnhof where the train gets in, to zoo palast for the key of my temporary apartment, and on to gartnerstrasse. The wonders of bvg.de. I love a good online journey planner. If we could only devise one fo the conceptual path, I would be set!!