Call it writer’s block. For the last couple of weeks I’ve simply been unable to write anything resembling a post even though there has probably been plenty to write about. I suppose one bit of news, if you hadn’t seen it on the facebook on March 26th, is that I’ve been accepted into the Intensive Program at NECCA. There was also the Showcase of Circus which was held at the studio on March 24th. Then there was the demo performance at the WRSI Meltdown event on March 31st. Now that it’s almost mid-way through April, all that news feels like “olds” instead. So, I’ll write about something else.
Do you ever wonder about the lives of people around you? Like in the grocery store, for example. When you go grocery shopping, you see all the other grocery shoppers going about their shopping. There’s also the store employees; the stock-people, the cashiers, the baggers, the people behind the meat counter and the seafood counter. But do you ever wonder what they do in their “other life,” their non-grocery-shopping life? Maybe some of them are artists, lawyers, astronau
ts, circus performers, doctors, kung-fu masters, Olympic athletes, musicians or any number of other things. And you wouldn’t know by looking at them. This reminds me of an art project I did a couple years ago for a self-portrait class. I made a “quilt” of self portraits which I hung in front of some mirrors with “secrets” hanging in between. It was about what people hide versus what they show. That’s what the photo is of.
