Another day another couple of rejections for menial part-time jobs. Tonight’s the opening of Leeds Artist Book Fair and the Home From Home exhibition. I’m gutted I won’t be there. It’s going to be a great event. Over 80 artists exhibiting in one house. And thanks the the Royal Mail my book project will actually happen.
It looked like disaster earlier in the week when we discovered there was no letterbox. My book is being created by the audience (or to be correct the readers of an email) to send a postcard to the address, but with no letterbox officially the undelivered mail would be destroyed. It only took two calls to sort it out with the post office who were only too glad to help.
In other news I got a snazzy new dictphone in the post today which should help with note taking and listening to audio books. I’m still making my way through chapter one of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume one. The idea came from Strategies for Free Education http://noinstitute.wordpress.com/ who are one of the many groups who are seeking other ways to learn that don’t involve a lifetime of debt.
So far there is no interest from the community in Dorset or my fellow MA students and my tutors seem perplexed as to why I would want to burden myself with reading such an epic piece of literature. But that’s the way I work. I have to know the source. Like paper, or even photography I have to go back to the begining and understand what it was like to experience these things when they had just begun to happen. maybe ot goes back to the insecurities about education.
Coming from a background where education was only for those who could afford it my parents presented our education to us a gift that we should value highly. But when your the first person in your extended family to embark on post graduate training it does feel kinda special but fragile and a huge step really. I know my dad’s cousins are all lawyers and one was the Lord Chief Justice in Northern Ireland, but still learning kind of isolates you. You think differently and you realise how little you know. Maybe that’s why I feel the need to go back to the beginning and build up a picture of the whole thing because I have no reference for this new knowledge.
However and whatever my priority at the moment is to stay focused. Not easy at all, but this weekend will mainly be reading and writing my PDP (see yesterdays post).
