Great Couple Of Days

We started yesterday with a two hour session with Heidi. We sat staring at a wall of material taped to the wall-- we talked about mapping and linking from all of the piles of material we have gathered. We wondered out loud about form and content and talked about structure, form, and content. We discussed ways to take what we've been doing this week in Vancouver to the next stage-- what elements will be in the room to help us devise and make the leap from our ideas to the space. How do you juggle devising, which has it's own life, and the ideas you've been spewing on to paper? Is there a super-structure, are the ideas braided together? In keeping with the theme that seems to be running through this week, we came up with a lot of questions, especially Heidi, who posed some really great questions that we will surely be thinking about for the entire process (and future processes). After Heidi left, we continued to watch more science videos (on black holes) and pulled out some more material.

Today we started the morning by happening upon a fountain that someone had dumped soap into. Who knows why...but it looked almost like snow and we got really excited because one of our possible story lines takes place partially in the Arctic. We took a bunch of photos of Trina in the water (it was a bit cold and people were looking as she hiked up her pants and walked into the fountain) and got some more ideas. Then we saw some some film about string theory and the theory of everything. Followed by a physical warm-up and exercises to get the blood pumping and to focus our wits. That gave birth two a great two hour brainstorming session, on our feet, tossing ideas and picking up reviewing material from the beginning of the week.

Going to meet up with The Chop tonight!