Went to collect paintings from Castle Park Arts Centre in the morning in the dazzling winter sunlight, the roads were amazingly empty for a Friday, probably due to Omicron, the working-from-home directive.
Then a full day of working on the Neorenaissance book. The current plan is for if to be divided into three sections, one of poetry and images, some information on the poets, then a list of my art exhibitions to date. As well as all of the art and poems, I'll include some stills from Sue's Spiral Staircase video, and I'm toying with whether to include music or anything else.
The start of each section will have a header image, so I've been working on those, as well as formatting and finalising the images. Here's an example of a header:
Most of the poets now have returned signed agreements of permission to use their work, only 4 of the 14 poets remain.
Last night I dreamt I was at a gathering with Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Salvador Dali, and a few other famous guests. It took place in something like a school sports hall, and everyone was standing in relative quiet, holding drinks, like a Sartrean existentialist party. Later, Deb and I went to the top of a steep hill with these people for a mass or religious event. We lay on the terraces on the side of the hill, lying on our backs to face the sky, all side by side. I was next to a female artist, a character like Suzanne Vega but more of an amalgam of a respected artist. We couldn't see the priest or ceremony, which had echoes of an event from The Holy Mountain.
