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BUT OUR DREAMS DO

Elsa's Creativity Space - Update

  Hello again, 

I woke up this morning with the words, don't bite off more than you can chew, going through my head. But my dreams do, over and over, bite off way more than that. And I get pulled along. Lots of work, obstacles, learning. I'm not a quitter, but I've let go, time and again, only to come back and try again.

My question to you: how do you get along (or not) with your dreams? I'd love to hear.

I've spent my whole life, when it comes to creative things, biting off more than I can chew. I was twelve when I wrote my first play, and still twelve when I wrote my first film script. The play was finally put on - in a family friend's basement - two years later. The film script, lovingly reworked for several years, never made it onto the screen.

Right there, with those early works, I'm at the heart of what's been hardest for me: finding a way to get the works out into the world.

In this case, I think the words came this morning because it's almost time for me to get back to creative things. Like for many creative people, that's my area of biggest dreams and biggest difficulties.

If you want to hear more on this struggle,
Elsa's Creativity Blog, April 8, 2007

Or here's the struggle in a spoken word piece,
MY DREAMS AND I, April 8, 2007

I had a choice this morning. Regular words, everyday words - or a song/spoken word piece. I went for both choices.

There was yet another choice - to pay attention to the words in my head, or to ignore them and get on with my day.

I chose to let those words be part of my day, especially as I knew where they were coming from: the huge and daunting task I've set myself, to get more of My Chosen Home on the web, starting with the most ambitious single piece done so far, Summer's Passing.

A bit of background. The goal is to bring alive the experience of being at home. What does it mean, to be at home, for different people?

I wrote a piece on my own experience. Months later, listening to an electroacoustic piece by a friend, Mark Corwin, I started hearing words in my head:

summer's passing
and I'm having a blast
waiting for anything
waiting for nothing
not waiting

The words went on, trying to capture Mark's experience of being at home in his back yard in late summer. I rummaged through my bag for paper and pencil, started writing.

That was, as usual, the easy part.

The journey has been a long one. An English and a French version. Photographs. Recordings - Mark's voice for the English, mine for the French. Doing a mix. Creating an interactive piece where people can choose what to listen to (the mix, Mark's original soundscape, just the voices). Working with Flash (a web design program with movement, animation, video).

Next week, on the web, the current version of Summer's Passing.

In the meantime, all the best to you in making your own dreams come true.

Comments are very welcome. How do you get along with your dreams? Do they drive you, lead you?

Elsa
April 9, 2007

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Welcome to Elsa's Creativity Space

My dreams and I. Long deep sleeps as I face
trying to make real my creative dreams.
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in Elsas Word Story Image Idea Music Emporium.

Elsas Creativity Space,
an all-round creativity site
exploring moments, memory, thoughts
through spoken word, song, story,
idea pieces, rap, journal, reflection, dreams, more.
Elsas Creativity Space.

Elsas creativity space is
Elsas creativity space

Gertrude Stein said, almost a century ago, a rose is a rose is a rose.

Just as a rose is a rose is a rose,
Elsas creativity space is
Elsas creativity space is
Elsas creativity space.

One could even go on to say that
a rose is a rose by any other name.

Likewise, one could hold that
Elsas creativity space is
Elsas creativity space
by any other name.

And many humans might not even notice if,
instead of
Elsas creativity space
I wrote
Elsas creativity place
or
Elsas creativity site.

Most humans would just register that it's
Elsas creativity something or other.

And it is.
But there's more.

The name is a signal.

This is
Elsas creativity space
Elsas creativity space
Elsas creativity space.

i am not calling mayday. This is not a distress signal.

It's a hello signal, come see me, notice me.

Hello,
it's Elsas creativity space
Elsas creativity space
Elsas creativity space
calling all search engines
to find me on my island
deserted but fertile
enchanted but isolated
creative and creating but too too alone.

Who will help me through my dark?
Who will help me make my mark?
Who will help me build my ark?
I cannot do it alone.

I'm calling to people
but strangely it's not people
I am turning to for help.

It's the web
the world wide web.

I'm calling hoping the web will hear that
Elsas creativity space
Elsas creativity place
Elsas creativity oasis
is calling, calling, calling with longing and hope.

signed,

Elsa

Zee

Not-me

Sexe-Tete

All of me

including my early childhood self, Dely,
who took the name Elsa

July 9 , 2006
somewhat revised, February 6, 2007

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