When I start a new project, it is certain that I will encounter new problems that I could never have envisaged. ‘007 v John Ridley’ concentrating on and examination of my father and his dedication to his business career have led me into very personal territory.
As Richard Taylor has commented there are modes of operation that produce fictional narrative from personal history and that is an area I have not examined so far. This also applies to tautology, the unnecessary repetition of an idea, or simply a doubling up, honest truth, I am unanimous in that or widow woman, these are mostly constructs of speech, something I enjoy using in performance. I don’t feel that I want to stray too far from the unvarnished truth, or the truth as far as I can conceive it from such close quarters. From where I write this (France) the performance feels more distant and less personal, but ideas about the soundtrack of the video have condensed further towards a clearer goal, that of combining movement and stillness. Maybe tautology will figure in the texts I use during the performance. Critical and physical distance are useful aides to creativity.
