Alternative platform: Jon Adams

Friday 17th

Momentous day – actually get into workshops and start making……………..

Spend evening out till very late plotting intervention event in London later in the year

Wednesday 15th

Catch train to London for informal chat with a potential funder for AP. Meet another artist who invites me to collaborate and screen some of my films on his Internet TV station. Will do that..more later. Catch quite a late train home. Sit in London for some of the day, the feelings remind me of when i was at university, in those days i was a very solitary person, even with all these people passing and the buzz but you can still feel isolated and very 'alone'. Everyone caught in their own world. Guess I am tired.

Tuesday 14th

Head out in evening for a fellow dyslexic artists birthday party (R) in a Local bar, get soaked walking there, but loads turn up and catch up with some friends I haven't seen for ages. meet some more fellow dyslexics too. (dadar) Walk home head buzzing with a new idea, write notes when get in as cant sleep. Still low..others too, must be something in the 'air'. Lack of sun- too much rain?

Saturday and Sunday 12th

Finished my shoe and box for the Global shoe project, have a look at
http://www.globalshoeproject.page.tl/

Orange box with torn words.

why torn words and an orange centre? i was abused badly and bullied at school so i turned inwards. I hid from people for 30 years. I felt 'safe' in my world of rocks, fossils and geology at 12 years old. geology is stiff safe to me. The covering is 'torn' from a geology book i bought aged 12. v personal to me. the orange is the colour of one who has 'self-harmed' but now has stopped. i work with autobiographical themes now to stop this abuse and bullying by publicity, because kids are dyslexic doesn't mean they are 'stupid like i was told everyday, i do this so that no one has to feel they need to hide.

Spend most of the night in garden staring at the sky watching the best meteors i have seen.

Monday 13th

New computer comes (with a few difficulties!) so spend next few days sorting this out and loading software. Dare to make some 'sounds' with new software, unfortunately I am supposed to be preparing forms. (may have to clean house next! anything but forms)

May hear from one of the rail companies this week…..

Wednesday 8th

Head up to London to Meet friends from Dada-South and Brighton. Have a good meeting and we go to look at the Dali expo after. They pick up on fact i am low, so I'm not 'hiding' it to well, something you get polished at (but what people don't realize is its at these times I tend to be very creative) Spend some time with LDC after others leave and have 'creative' conversations for a couple of hours. Write furiously ideas down on way home. I can feel very isolated in Portsmouth sometimes……