Funny, I’ve been thinking too. Perhaps we do need to be talking ABOUT something rather than the meandering conversation. It works obviously in our emails, but here not so much… probably because we are leaving out the personal stuff that makes the emails meaningful, and funny, and they contain the essence of what has kept us talking to each other. This is the low-fat, low-alcohol, sugar-free version. No taste?
So, my friends….
What shall we talk about?
Elena
My friend and fellow artist has been following our blog. I sat down for a coffee with her the other day and she said she is finding the blog very hard to follow.
I’ve been trying to figure out why because it makes sense to me. But I think it may be because we flit between the present and the past and of course I’ve been there throughout so it has significance to me. But I’m not sure.
I don’t know if there is anything we can do about it this early on though as we couldn’t just start a blog from now, we have to give some background information. I also think as we are all very busy at the moment and can’t dedicate a lot of time to this blog right now it isn’t moving on and developing as we would have liked.
I feel that I haven’t got enough hours in the day and this ‘maybe’ project gets shoved to the bottom of the list when I’m busy. It doesn’t stop me thinking about it and although I probably sound disheartened I’m not, I’m still as enthusiastic and excited as before. It’s just the one thing I really hate about my work, how unpredictable the job is and how it can go from one extreme to the other in a matter of weeks. I know it’s better to be at this end of the spectrum but right now I have to much to do and to little time to do it in and so once again something has to be put on hold.
I’ve been thinking about how I write this blog and how it differs from my own. I think the main way it really differs from mine is that I try to consider what Elena and Franny would think about what I’m writing. We had agreed to write whatever we wanted but I can’t help it, it’s just different when it’s a joint blog. I think I’ve come up with a way I can overcome this though. I write much more freely in my emails to Elena and Franny so I think I’m going to try talking directly to them in the blog and see if this helps.
Also I want to share more about what I want to do but have been worried about writing anything in case this isn’t theway I go. Well I’m just going to say whats happening when it happens like I do in my own blogs.
That’s it for now, Franny and Elena, I’ve been missing our email chats but I just haven’t had time to catch up. It makes me want to give up the ‘only internet’ communication but I think we could really do something with it. When this month is over I should have time to breathe and catch up. I’ve been thinking about different ways of communication again and maybe I want to explore different ways of documenting our conversations. Dvd? Voice recording? Or still the written word but maybe in different forms…
I want to make lists.
I think I’ve been inspired by the last artist in residence at the Comma shop where I am now because I want to mix things up and put them back together but not necessarily just words!!
If only I had the time.
Julie
