new beginnings
Distance.
How does one express it?
Distance is playing the prelude to Bach's first cello suite in a melancholic augmented way.
Distance is dipping a brush into water and spreading it over paper, only the hint of a pigment in view.
Distance is being totally indifferent to somebody linked to you.
Distance is writing a letter to somebody you've never met.
Tomorrow a project climaxes in my g.c.s.e. art exam, and I see what could be the end to a very lonely school-year beginning to approach. Looking over the three projects that we have done over Year Eleven I clearly see the turning point, the day or week or month on which I flipped my heart and my mind around and decided: I am an artist. As much as anyone else in my art group is. I am one and it's not being pretentious to label myself as such. I am a maker, quite simply. I look back over three projects and five work journals and think of those words I typed out, so very long ago now. Words rushing out straight of my mind: free verse. Then, as always follows with me, a poem, rhymes form with structure.
And you, you're as artist, I said
To him. A painter, yes, he
Replied, as if distinguishing those
Two things from one another were
Very important.
Distance.
How does one accept it?
Emily and I live very far apart. And yet we're also very good friends. Sometimes I wonder if writing e-mails is so different from writing letters. Why should the relationship that forms be seen as so very different than with paper-and-pen friends?
To celebrate the start of Idle Dreaming Emily & I are running a give-away. To be eligible for entry all you have to do is leave a comment about anything at all on this post by the 16th of May (which gives you a whole week!), making sure that you state your e-mail address very clearly. I will draw the name of a winner out of a hat on the 17th of May.
The prizes....
Each of two winners will receive a little bundle of goodies which may or may not include an ATC, a pincushion or a broach. It will be a surprise, probably depending on who wins!
Remember to leave a comment by the 16th with your e-mail address to be entered in to the draw. Good luck (and wish me success in my art exam).
Categories:
contest,
thoughts and dreams
8 comments:
Ooh, cool, a new blog! :)
mimagirl@gmail.com
I hope that when I am a teacher, all of my students are as intelligent as you are. They would be a dream to teach!
Good luck with your exams!! =)
(fluffyhelen@mac.com)
oooh! a new blog! (just to let you know, i've been reading both of your blogs for a while.) i swear i'm not a stalker! anywho, this blog will be really interesting to read, i think.
[watermonkey@sbcglobal.net]
To my new and my not-as-new (but just as exciting) friends, I think that distance is relative. For example; I just found out that a girl who goes to my school lives three houses away from me. And we have been going to the same school for about nearly half a year! Oh well, better late than never...
young_modern@hotmail.com
Hi girls,
I am so happy to see you starting this blog together! Isn't it wonderful that two people who have never really met can engage in something like this! Best wishes to both of you girls--you are both adorable!
---Don't worry about entering my name in the drawing since, of course, I am Em's mum!
I'm enjoying your new blog so far, keep up the good work :)
i just hate distance most of the time. is this a valid comment? ;)
also. sswotp, my coolest verification word so far.
Oh what a fabulous blog and idea and I love the title too. I am a blog obsessive and the fact that you can make such great friends with shared interests and dreams never ceases to amaze me. Wish you both the best of luck with this new and wonderful (ad)venture
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