TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

2:49 PM
Posted by jodi rose

there are just those days when life is all about picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, getting up and doing it all over again. only slightly different.
if you can't get over it, go under, if you can't get under it, go round, if you can't get round it, ignore it completely and just walk on through!

somehow, it just makes me smile. all the illusions you build up around yourself to keep going, once they pop there is a certain sense of clarity.

this year is all about stripping back to the essence. community and collaboration. being realistic but still optimistic. making things happen despite myself. letting life take over and wash you into new pools.

and hey, a few months writing in the middle of summer in europe. how bad can it be? the worst thing I have to deal with here is the dead rabbits. at least they are a physical entity, much easier to clean up than your own dead illusions or misbegotten dreams. so, new illusions and new dreams.

I did get to wander through the australian sculpture exhibition in den haag with the queen of the netherlands. ok, alongside the phalanx of police and private security who rushed ahead shunting the crowd away from her majesties imperial presence. she had a fabulous purple hat and gloves, and spent time with all the works, even hoisting a pink and green flag that said 'oh yeah'. danced afterwards with the artists and others at the party.
robyn got to walk along with trixie through her whispering trees, talking about morse code. had a very delicious artist dinner at gaeruda restaurant, and then lots of ridiculous throwing ourselves around to rock'n'roll and dance music with richard, anne, and my new best friend lovely young dutch artist in the 'office for contemporary adventures' pavilion. must email her friend with the art hotel in rotterdam. I could be an installation. working on that here already installed in the railway house.