Arcadia Bride

A Phone Call (for "Last night &Tonight")

2008-09-27T04:20:00.000-07:00

I filmed the phone call dream yesterday and will put it up soon x

I am waiting by the phone. It rings the accented voice on the other end says "Hello?" happily, then they say "Oh, its you. i dont have anything important to say. I'll call back later. I then say in a robotic monotone "How is your new house?" they say "Oh, It's ok, I was thinking maybe we could all go to the movies together sometime" I say "Good" There is silence and i hang up.

I am cradling a huge pile of cashews, shelled and unshelled. Someone tell me to close the garden gate because it's cold and then they tell me that the cashews smell really strong. They say this in a very negative way.

pie dream "Last Night & Tonight"

2008-09-17T16:55:00.003-07:00

MAKING A CONTACT MICROPHONE

2008-09-17T16:55:00.002-07:00

This is David's diagram of "how to make a contact microphone"

2008-09-17T16:55:00.000-07:00

2008-09-10T19:55:00.000-07:00

This is just a sample of one of the crochet pieces from The Live Blanket.

The Live Blanket - Progress

2008-09-10T19:15:00.000-07:00

The Live Blanket is progressing well.I have made the base of the piece and have made half of the crotchet patches which are yet to be connected into the body of the blanket. The patches vary in material, texture and shape. Some are simple and basic crochet patterns others are like cungy voys, amoeba like structure that stick out from the blanket and wrap around the speakers. Next week i am meeting with David so i can get started on making the speakers/microphones and figure out the logistics of the amplification and the rest. I have decided to keep the colours in grades of black. I want the audience to want to touch the sturcture and surface as their interaction with the blanket is vital to the success of the Live Blanket . x

flower dream

2008-08-31T17:03:00.000-07:00

This is the fisrt video from "Last Night and Tonight" I won't bother prefixing it with self deprecating comments. You can just watch.x

DAYDREAMS (For Last Night & Tonight)

2008-08-30T01:50:00.000-07:00

The twins sit very still in identical poses against a wall of block colour. They stand and walk away at the same time.
A girl in a dress stands in the middle of busy traffic at night. She takes off the dress in one quick movement and stands naked with the night and the traffic around her. She turns in a flickering way from her front to her back and from her back to her front. Over and over and over and over and over.
A colourfully dressed boy tries to effortlessly walk through inky black mist.

progress

2008-08-30T01:46:00.000-07:00

Workin, workin, a little bit of workin. I'll have the dreams up on here soon in all their video splendour.
the "live blanket" is coming along...just crocheting at the moment and trying to figure out with david how the hell i can make the speakers and microphones...who am i talking to?..myself

Not Dreams (For "Last night &tonight")

2008-08-19T19:44:00.000-07:00

Standing cold in my bedroom
walked past school girls eating hot chips in the morning
Blocked a mans path on the footpath
Dropped magnets on the floor
I am drying a small knife.It is threatening
It is not threatening
I crossed six roads this morning
I readjusted a piece of newspape on the fridge so that it covered my left eye in a photo of me on the fridge
What i want to say is probably what you dont want to hear

Red morning (for "Last night & tonight")

2008-08-19T00:07:00.000-07:00

I'm telling someone "I want to scare people" They nod and smile in agreement.
The sky is red. I wake up saying "bring the whole burden of twilight crashing down."

And then there was last night (for "Last night &Tonight")

2008-08-16T02:27:00.000-07:00

At the top of an overflowing dam trying to paddle a canoe made out of some sort of Pampas leaf. It fold and bows beneath me but stays sturdy as well. I'm under the water trying to untangle its anchor from that of another canoe. It's a happy feeling. The anchor chain is made from cloth and the anchor is a blue bath plug.
I am holding pieces of crothet up to the sun
A family of red headed boys appear slowly in the room.I say each of their names as they come up to me. I know each of them.The last, and the youngest,has hair so red it's almost purple. I say his name "Richard" he nods. I don't know him. But i know he isn't part of the the family.

last night's dreams- for "last night &tonight"

2008-08-14T23:01:00.000-07:00

A girl's profile-someone says to her"your hair is so soft" she nods slowly. she says "it wasn't before."
A library-behind the counter a boy looks at a huge pale choc-chip cookie. I can hear my muffled voice as I speak to him. He looks doubtful and offhand. I leave the library. I am walking down a dark granite stairwell I see the boys long legs in dark jeans running behind me. He gives me a torn piece of the large pale cookie. He smiles at me. I walk down the stairs looking at the pale cookie in my hand.

begining to catch sleep- for "last night & tonight"

2008-08-13T16:21:00.001-07:00

The Hypnagogic state

the state between being awake and falling asleep. For some people, this is a time of visual and auditory hallucination.

A dream- i am looking down at my large pregnant belly. I then see myself from the distance and as i turn a large perfect circle appears across my belly. suddenly a baby rushes out from between my legs. someone takes the purple and red child and tells me to clean myself up. Then i am closing the splintered dark wooden door of an outside toilet.Before i close the door i ask someone if the twins would like to see the placenta which is massive, like a horses heart, outside the door. A girl puts her head around the corner and says "no, i don't think so". I close the door.