Re: [-empyre-] summ(er)ing up thank you

[portholeaccel <portholeaccel@yahoo.com>]

just wanted to say thank you for this months
topic 
i have not been to new zealand in 2 years and
miss  the art o the people 2 it was nice to be
exposed agian and revisit.... 

"THE LAND OWNS YOU, YOU DO NOT OWN THE LAND"
quotequotequote Maori
thank you agian 
Natalie Myers 


--- Helen Varley Jamieson
<helen@creative-catalyst.com> wrote:

> i've been trying to shape some intelligent
> summing-up comments but 
> the fact is that summer is what's up in
> wellington & i just want to 
> go outside & lie in the sun ...
> 
> & it's difficult to sum up a 'discussion' which
> has been a series of 
> divergent views & opinions, peering into some
> corners of aotearoa/nz, 
> shying away from others, some false starts &
> stops & back-ups & 
> moments of brilliance & moments of irritation &
> random musings & 
> interesting links ... maybe the whole is not so
> different from the 
> reality of being an artist in/from nz/aotearoa.
> 
> when thinking about place & home & distance, i
> keep coming back to 
> the simple fact of how geographically isolated
> new zealand is. the 
> internet allows us to bridge that distance -
> but close the connection 
> & the distance is back again. i've met many
> people in the northern 
> hemisphere who were astonished to learn that
> it's at least a 3 hour 
> flight to get *anywhere* from nz. think london
> to istanbul, or paris 
> to moscow - that's how close we are to
> australia; it's the tasman sea 
> not the english channel. if you're in europe &
> someone at home gets 
> sick or dies, you feel like you're on mars.
> anyone who's endured the 
> whole journey in one go (involving 2-3 flights
> & up to 40 hours in 
> travel-limbo) then spent 3 days falling asleep
> at inconvenient times 
> & unable to concentrate while you wait for your
> soul to arrive, knows 
> that distance.
> 
> whether it's the whiff of the moss or the sight
> of the harbour cone, 
> the first (em)bracing gust of wind or the fine
> white sand between 
> your toes, we all recognise the
> emotional/sensory umbilical cord that 
> ties us to the land of our birth - and to other
> significant places (i 
> also feel it when the old JAT bus rolls me into
> the dusty streets of 
> belgrade). we're all from *somewhere* & that
> fact can be irrelevant 
> even as it permeates everything.
> 
> what does all this have to do with art?
> everything & nothing, imho 
> ... it's been a pleasure to have contributed,
> albeit sporadically, to 
> aotearoa month on empyre & i hope you've found
> some small insight(s) 
> into this corner of the globe amongst it all.
> 
> ka kite ano,
> h : )
> -- 
>
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> helen@creative-catalyst.com
> http://www.creative-catalyst.com
> http://www.avatarbodycollision.org
> http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm
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