we are five

The inaugural meeting took place on 19 August. A three hour epic. Twenty four hours, a set of minutes, and no second thoughts later. We commence our journey together. The trailblazings of Paul, Kat, Kristal, Jonny and I, to the heart of the elephant.

One designer, one copy writer, one art director and an artist. And me. Five. Jonny has just climbed Mount Blanc for charity. At least one of us is taking this seriously.

wanted: indefatigability

Even though by last Tuesday I had already decided to walk away from it all, Jonny Harris and I had found it so difficult to find a time to meet I decided not to cancel on him. He had kindly invited me to his installation at The Foundry (toilets pictured right, which they are pulling down to build a swanky hotel by the way).

I found myself writing Jonny an email the next day to thank him for saying "we". With reference to the project at one point during the evening he said "we" and I heard it at one thousand decibels. Suddenly I was a team. It made me realise that not one person has been brave enough to take any ownership to date, in spite of my openness. I suppose subconsciously I had annotated in the margins of my latest chapter: Throw me a frickin' bone here, people!!!!.

My mojo is back. It will be 3-months tomorrow that the idea was conceived and as the days post cultural services team meeting lapsed, my motivation waned.

But f*ck it. In the slightly altered words of Magnus Magnusson, I've started so we'll finish.