Where to start?
Yesterday I spent a very enjoyable afternoon in Birmingham, where I had never been before (unless you count to watch football, which I don’t, as I was reading a book at the time) so I was very excited to experience what I had imagined was the mythical, ‘bullring’. With a slight disappointment at the lack of Javier Bardem in Matador costume to welcome me, I was pretty impressed.
A discussion group organised by and for a-n, it was a big mix of different artists and users of this site. At any artist gathering I always end up in awe of the diversity of knowledge of everyone at such events and invariably depart with a list of a thousand people and things to look up when I get home. Unfortunately it is impossible to talk to everyone and you could easily have spent the next week or so in highly interesting discussion with each and every person there.
The overiding thing that I got from this particular meeting though was a real sense of belief that WE CAN (and have to) MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
WE HAVE TO BE SELF-ENABLING.
and that it is THROUGH NETWORKS OF PEOPLE THAT EXCITING AND AMAZING THINGS HAPPEN (if you make them)
Never before have I been so convinced in the theories of ‘making your own luck’ and self-fullfilling prophesy.
Now, like never before, it is a time to be brave.
