6.30 pm. I’ve just arrived back in Brighton after a week away with family, and am feeling particularly dazed, even for me. I spent most of last week in the Sussex countryside, where my parents had rented a converted barn, which belonged to a garden centre. As luck would have it, the garden of the barn backed on to a field, where there was a horse. He’d been nipped repeatedly by another horse, and had iodine lotion on his wounds, which resulted in him looking a little like the surface of the moon. I’d been planning for a while to take my cut-out of the merry-go-round horse from the pier on a trip to meet real horses, and had brought all my cut-outs along in the hope of finding one. I’ve made a video for my Brighton Series, I’ve put on Youtube as a work in progress. Haven’t checked yet whether I’ve had any barely intelligible abusive comments of the type that seem to be the standard response on Youtube.
While I’m on the subject of social media, I’ve recently started using Twitter, after resisting for about 3 years. It must be 3 years now, since it was first mentioned to me by an artist/friend, who was describing how he’d had what ended up being a very heated debate with a friend of his, who was trying to tell him about Twitter, and how good it was, and my friend wasn’t interested at all, and he remarked that ‘the name says it all’. I remember thinking at the time that id did sound rather pointless. Then it got really popular, people I respect started using it, but I still resisted. I think put off more by the name than anything else – I think my friend’s opinion on the matter must have influenced me quite a bit. But I’m glad I overcame this absorbed prejudice, because I’ve really enjoyed my experience of it so far. It’s helped me to feel more a part of a community of artists, and is very good for keeping in touch with events, blogs, etc.
Anyway, I shall leave you (whoever you may be) for now with my horse video, as it is at present. It will have sound at a later date.
Victoria, a horse from the Merry-Go-Round on Brighton Pier, feels a little out of place in a field with a horse called Fizzy. Work in progress, and part of my Brighton Series.
