New year and new age: juggling with layers of parallel lives

 

Time is going by like sand dripping lightly from the gaps between my fingers. Living two parallel lives, there are so much to catch up. In one layer there is the normal family life with a school boy experiencing something new every day, all  the ups and downs of growing up and blissful moments of beauty, like the first book he reads, the first line he writes.

On the other layer there is constant dreadful flow of news. News of death, execution and brutality and there is news of confusion, helplessness and all historic complexes of a nation coming to surface. An extreme polarity.

In the mean time I was ill with covid one more time, then it was New Year and then I became 46 years old.

We had a great Beef Lab event at the Cube cinema as part of first series of Program and a 3 day residency where I worked with others and also tried to work on the paper, scissor rock idea that I have already shot some material for.Beef Presents  Part 2 is soon on its way.

The Natural England project is still in progress. I filmed students from Plymouth University whose work show strong connection with landscape and we talked about how Ingrid Pollard visit have sparked new directions in to their work.