09 January 2011

We all want to be something different

Talked to Ali today, mum of the friend of the mysterious girl. She was delighted to know that portrait images of the community were to be in an exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy. I told her I was hugely excited and that the first person I shared the news with of the exhibition Dreams, Masks & Mirrors was Lennie, my window cleaner. I"m coming, he said, I"ve never been anywhere royal. Whilst there was something burning under the grill, we discussed on the phone the desire to be 'Other'..."Well, we all want to be someone different - don't we" said the Mum of the best friend of the mysterious little girl, who had appeared as though from nowhere and dressed in a different outfit over ten times. I explained the photographs taken during the ten day art/works festival was to explore the theme of a contemporary take on fairytale & myth. Isobel loved the Travelling Museum of Possibilities, she still talks about it...told her Nan on Christmas Day all about what took place, dressing up, in the media bus. She wore her Travelling Museum badge on her Christmas dress". "I dream of being on Front Row".