I agree with your thoughts of time and distance, even though, as you know, my instinct when I am excited by a project is to completely absorb myself in it and work solidly until it is complete. I feel like we need to strike a balance between letting things sit and getting them done swiftly. Even if some of the projects we do are only exercises for more in-depth pieces. I am always concerned about ideas being left or forgotten because of time lapses. But I think this is our tension and the reason our collaboration works.
I love the idea of making our recorded conversation a key work, a reference point and quoted source for us to come back to and reflect on. In fact, I think it should sit on the "our coexistence" part of our blog. as a sound file that can be listened to by us or others. What do you think?
Does the mentioning of not rushing our process come not wanting to rush our little story/illustrate project that we spoke about last week? I hope not, because I have a really perfect thing that happened to me today that I would love to begin with:
Today I saw a magical thing. I was walking home and I saw an old woman in a white scarf, wrinkly face and bright eyes. She was staring, amazed, at little fenced in hill with trees and shrubs on it, next to grand army plaza - one of the busiest and most confusing intersections in brooklyn - the cars whizzing in all directions around her. I followed her gaze, and saw a enormous, regal bird of prey with a pigeon in its talons. Then it took off flying, across the busy intersection and towards the park, still clutching the grey, feathery remains. The woman pointed excitedly at the disappearing creature - "the big bird has the little bird!" she gasped in a thick, salty accent.
