meetings
We met at The Place yesterday, and then immediately after at The Place again. First we talked about this project, and then we realised that in talking about it the project was becoming, or had started. We didn’t know if we should be paying more attention to what it was that we were saying. Things seem to take on importance beyond what they would ordinarily. In preparing for the second meeting, it was clear that the first meeting was what we needed to replicate, or participate in as part of the second. If only the others (present at the second meeting) could have sampled the first.
Colin talked about questions of choice. How do we choose to be seen? What are the limits of comfort … in being seen, and in looking? He mentioned the word ‘obscenity’, and something about seeing too much … “an orgy of seeing”.
Later, John Ashford said of Colin: “he stands there, being the archetype”. I felt envious of his archetypical status. But then Colin said that when we first met (in London in 2007) he “fell in love with my mind”. Damn, it would appear my chances of someone falling in love with my body are rapidly diminishing.
