In my last post I set out the parameters for a different sort of vacation. The problem statement requires me to access my other selves and I have a special opportunity of time in which to do it.
Here's the plan so far: I have 'gone off the grid', really only the responsive portion, no business related voice or electronic messages (my blackberry, oh no). I will do the healthy things we do when we take a vacation. Change my pace (faster and slower), look for ways to nurture my spirit and physical self, learn and play.
Saturday will be a day of prep for my 5 upcoming project days. Sunday-Thursday will each feature a project of my choosing. I will create and update my proposed project list, that will be posted Saturday and will be updated over the week as I learn more about how to plan my approach. Some considerations are time travel, locational travel, vocational travel, new selves, access to others with whom I have not traditionally had connections.
A note on time travel: although many of us long for a time machine, I suspect we have those machines already. Taste something from childhood long forgotten and I am transported. The same goes for music, viewing pictures, donning clothing or using tools or structures from other times. Theatre gives us renderings from other times and places. Productions that most delight include successful lighting, set, sound, costume and integration designs (direction). My design for each type of project will include those elements as well as considerations of time, location, my 'self' and those with whom I will interact.
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This is amazing. It scares me more than a little bit for you, I think the same way as if your art were aerial dance...trapeze...or big-wave surfing...
Bokonon said: "Any[one] can call time out, but no [one] can say how long the time out will be."
Please do come home again and share what you've learned when you can.
Anonymous has caught something--the image of an "aerial dance." It is a wonderful fit.
Included in this dance comes a sense of celebration. The words themselves want to fly, and with it a musceling of the imagination, including the rush of risk.
As for the avatar--does she have any psychological or values grounding? You hint at such things.[As I recall Hindu avatars do in their way]. Perhaps disallowing any trace at this point of such stuff is essential to working effectively with the hypotheticals found inside the five easy pieces. In other words, perhaps such material best develops inside "avataring," that is, inside in the created events of/by the Avatar herself. Or yet again, perhaps this kind of stuff is totally unwanted--just a meaningless distraction for the upcoming narrative.
Thanks for asking us to take flight along with you. The pathways offered here are legion, proposing a future that lives inside potential and promise. Have a great trip. Risk but stay safe.
So go woman. And as long as you are "trapezing"--fly high. We [Anonymous and others] are a safety net.
I think the avatar is developing well. She talks to me rather than following my lead. I found your comment on values grounding very helpful. What would motivate an immigrant woman of those days? My trips to the conservatory, Marshall Fields, the Chicago History Museum and into the archives have given me some nice frameworks, but Inga herself is much more interesting to me now.
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