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Friday, March 07, 2003
Well I'm safely back in Nottingham and slowly adjusting back to life in NG7!
I've mainly slept this week, catching up with all the sleep I lost working and travelling. I been having the strangest dreams mixing up Japanese and english and I keep forgetting where I am.
The flight back was fantastic, I managed to get all my equipment through hand luggage so I was really chuffed as I hadn't been stung with excess again. It was really quiet so we all had our own row and I stretched out and watched the movies - Bowling for Columbine, Solaris and Analyze that. Quite a selection, the roots of gun rage, clooney's arse and west side story songs. De niro and Crystal should be ashamed of themselves...
National Express back to Nottingham was a strange experience. Being away I had forgotten about regional accents, which sounds ridiculous. It's because all the english I heard was american or australian so when I landed in Heathrow and I heard someone from Bristol, I remembered. What an idiot! On the coach home I was half asleep and this strange language kept drifting in and out of my head. Because I'd tuned in to Japanese while I was away (Japan FM) my half asleep brain thought oh that must be cantonese or something, I then realised that I was listening to the bus drivers talking in English with broad Nottingham accents. I suppose the brain starts playing tricks on you after 23 hours travelling.
Spring from my window - Nottingham
My overwhelming feeling now is that it was a great month (I feel nostalgic already, I told you I was a sentimentalist), a fantastic opportunity and just how good it was to make a piece of work. Much of my working time is usually spent planning and fundraising for new projects or pitching and completing commercial design jobs as it's just not possible to make a living solely as an artist. Even the successful artists I know all do something else, usually teaching to support themselves. So being able to just make work (away from the phone and distractions) for a month was a real luxury and let me really focus. I'm now really keen on getting the website online as soon as possible and seeing if I can show Home-Maker-Japan in this country.
Coming back has made me feel very lucky to have my own house and garden, from my living room window I can see trees and squirrels and get a sense of space I never got in Tokyo. But I do miss the pace of the big city and the lovely people I met and friends I made, and has made me hungry to travel again, so next time.
Sheil had welcome home gifts of 4 back issues of heat, brits, jacko and 24 on video. I am easy to please. Thought I'd at last find out what was going on with Iraq and war, looked the news but turned on to see Richard Madeley discussing - who was the best charismatic leader - Hitler, Churchill or Kennedy and how do Bush, Blair and Sadaam hold up. Brilliant, he obviously was relishing the serious debate. Oh my god.
posted by Jeanie Friday, March 07, 2003
