" Ciao Aaron, I was thinking of you as I was trying to put the last 7 years of my life into a "hero's journey"... just playing a writing game, a little exercise, call it what you want...and when I was wondering who was the "mentor" figure that helped me flip some things in my life you came up naturally. And I realised I haven't replied to your message more than a year ago! "
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"Sometimes there are things that people like me would not like to share even with their therapists.. even would not like to be discuss with myself ..so better feel like to ask someone who might have an opinion and welcoming the topic natural as well.."
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" Always a challenging conversation , a nice cup of tea ....usually insisting on walking through the woods, even when it's raining cats and dogs - which is not my go to activity , but always worth it "
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" Sorted my housing dispute in 5 weeks - the council have been promising for 3 years , can't thank you enough "
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" Living in the city , I thought I was happy ...went to see Mr Valerio for a few days - this guy's like something out of Waldo's frontier ! Thoroughly recommend "
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" Sailed from Falmouth to Looe in a squall - one of the best days out I've ever had , genuinely thought I might die - only time I've ever felt ok about it "
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Life travels in loops and cycles , sometimes great big loops spin by , other times it's little cyclical funnels ....but it's always nice when even through the mists of time someone dear to you offers you such accolades ...
It's funny how coincidences can align ... When the world gives you a bit of a kicking , you kick right back - make it a first fight , a bar room brawl , a melee ..... If you are fighting for the right reasons - you'll at least get a beer at the end of it x
I've recently been working through some legal cases , it's been a different paradigm to usual , usually I have to spend time at the end of an exhibition circuit dealing with legalese, not that often that I start an exhibition this way ...
So I recently switched the nature of my business from " Art Gallery and creative practices " to " non profit creative practices "
I mused over this for a long time before deciding to commit to it ( although when I changed the category - the entire listed catalogue under the " products and services " vanished ....
I suppose I should have thought of that ...never mind
Non Profit - community orientated enterprise delivering instruction and tuition in empowerment and self definition through the application and engagement with ' creative practices '
I think that just about covers it - first class course in legitimate non compliance ?!
The encouraged addiction of the age is the blind frenzied , obsessive compulsive acquisition that I have previously coined and written about , in this age of incessant cost cuts and profit margin maximisation through expensive outsourcing outfits and consultancy ...
Ive spent many an hour in many a varied terrain and social dynamic - I like a humble little day , simple things ...
Despite the inarguable fact that the cumulative value of the products and services within my little catalogue of hobbies and commercially viable pastimes is demonstrably extensive these days ...
If I go ahead and earn too much money in a year , then I am eligible under threat of penalisation to kick a larger proportion of my income ( derived through perpetual nervous breakdown - ) into the government's consolidated fund ...
Anyone that is familiar with my notion on this subject will of course be well aware that I did my utmost to avoid (where possible) paying into this fund
The Arts Hole - was borne in the back of the idea , if I can control my product , I have the means to have full control over my income , I can accept and refuse sales of product or service to maintain the lowest obligation possible for paying into the Iraq war or the financial crisis bailout ....but if a government looks like it might actually fix a road or suitable fund the NHS and the additional infrastructure staff of this country ....well , then I'd be happy to reconsider, but otherwise , don't bother me , I'm stressed enough as it is !
Now over the past decade and a half or more - I have had to ' official complaint ' - ' matters in dispute ' - refuse to offer compliance on the grounds that ....
There has been loads of it , in fact I'd wager that over the past ten years I have easily spent as much time in litigation as I have in the studio - which is why I suppose days off feel so foreign to me these days ...
Over recent months and weeks , the underlying sense of civil I'll ease has become more and more palpable , on top of the escalations of the imposed austerity from the previous decade ... I have made my observations as they have unfurled ...
I think this is an interesting little time in history !
And best we can do ...is what we can within our means x
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