WOW! is all I can manage to get my fingers to type at the moment. Many thanks to Sarah Rowles for choosing my blog, along with Jo Moore’s blog, as choice blogs; I am delighted to be chosen with Jo because her blog is one of my favorites too. It is also with many thanks to a-n Artists Talking. Without this platform to connect, I would never have been able to reach so many other artists to discuss issues about work.
I have been thinking about my blog recently, because things have suddenly shifted for me. As a new member of Cor Blimey Arts I am no longer isolated in many respects, even though I do still work and study alone, as I mentioned in a recent post. In effect, I have bridged the gap of isolation with the help and generosity of the blogging community. And so, I’ve been wondering if my blog and its title are still relevant. Happily, I can say I believe they are. Even without this much appreciated affirmation from Sarah, I had come to the conclusion that the isolation I still face is one we all face as artists. We all think alone and we all face the audience alone.
There is also no denying the fact that our position, wherever that may be for each of us, places us in context with history, in all its manifestations. As artists we must face that as well. History is becoming a non-linear thing for me and I’m discovering through reading, it is for other thinkers as well. To move one’s thoughts from a linear progression to a globular (my favorite image of history at the moment) entity of occurrence seems full of intrigue. If you stop for a moment and think of all the things happening at this very moment, it can’t be rendered as linear, or if it can the lines will create a mass because there are just so many things happening in so many places in the same synchronous moment; boggles my mind!
So I will continue to talk about isolation and history because I still live with mine everyday as I suspect you do too.
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