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Colour Pages #6: Violet
…day three relentless and me shrinking under the onslaught, smaller smaller until I smell like nothing at all not even fear you could walk through me and not even know it now, though I would feel it. Years ago I had a voice, strong in the chorus of strong but someone I trusted browbeat the spectrum out […]
Colour Pages #2: Green, like breathing
Aggression is the other side of green. As a 14-year-old downhill racer I was trained to attack the hill, to ski not just on top of it, but in it. At the same age I was also developing my approach to cello. My first teacher – a passionate violinist who adored Kreisler, who played always from inside the music […]
#Selfie Post 3: Paralysis
Week 2 of Selfie Project: goin in… I need to come clean and report that I experienced two days of work paralysis after the shock of posting my face online 4.5 days ago. I actually needed to sleep off the bewilderment of feeling exposed before I could find my focus again & get back to the work. I […]
#Selfie post 2
This show project has turned into a kind of Selfie Pilgrimage for me. I must say, my initial resistance has been a challenge to overcome – I DO so resist, especially when reading articles like this one by James Franco (The Meanings of the Selfie, New York Times, December 2013) who rationalizes his recently acquired […]
Wings
twenty extra minutes uphill, but it didn’t feel like it because of Dire Straits and Jake Coco. In fact, my wings carried me up that hill in time with the music, and then I was soaring high high above everything where the horizon is curved, warm sun on my back. My theory is this: I’m […]