early morning recap

one bird outside our window had a rhythm going pre-5am this morning, and once it got in my head i couldn't shut it out. i dozed in the light for an hour or so, until i was bored with that. when i felt it was late enough that i wouldn't be putting myself back to bed by the time jasmine awoke, i got up trying not to disturb the sleeper on the other mattress, and came downstairs for tea. running low on tea ... we are going through it at such a pace we fear it might be unhealthy! you can't die from too much tea ... i keep telling jasmine there are worse addictions to have. jajaja

yesterday focused a lot on the beginnings of jasmine's film. her idea centers around co-existence and co-dependent relationships, and will feature a new character in our house, who will be visiting the weekend after next. may i introduce henning. a guitarist and harmonica player from frankfurt, germany! he will be playing the harmonica, and i will be the co-existing character. so yesterday we began with the beginnings of a day: getting out of bed. three impros later, one in the bedroom, one in the stairwell, and one in the kitchen, we had the base concept of the film. jasmine had mapped it out, and we filled in the blanks by trying out how to walk across the wall of the staircase, instead of taking the spiral stairs. or how to take a pair of sneakers off on the window ledge instead of conventionally untying the laces... or using one's hands...

two snapshots from our video-making!

a rabbit on my back

today we went to visit liset van dommelen, a local artist in delft. we met her at the residendy's showing this sunday past, and she told us about her most recent project: she is silk-screening images from her family's history onto wooden cutouts of rabbits. these rabbits will be worn on people's backs or carried like hand purses, around town on people's daily activities. when i showed interest in being a rabbit-bearer, she suggested with enthusiasm that we wear them during a dance rehearsal. and so today, jasmine and i went to her studio in downtown delft for our "fittings". we selected images from her collection that we thought inspiring or appropriate, and came out with a scale, a butterfly, a pair of angels, and "stage crew" in block lettering. she will take creative control and print them onto our rabbits, and have them to us by friday. the photoshoot is scheduled for the following weekend, at a park picnic in our neighbourhood!

above: the walk home after liset's, and a successful stopover at a second-hand store. purchases: that hot jacket i'm wearing (3-euros-50), a blue-painted tile for my mom's mosaics (1 euro), and a gorgeous b&w postcard in the style of audrey hepburn (10 cents)!

for liset van dommelen's website, please see the links list at the bottom of the page