Drift

Last week, I met artist, Julie O'Neill, and we talked about psychogeography, and artists like Hamish Fulton and Gregor Schneider. These are visual artists. Schneider's 'Haus' is what it says it is, a house, but an actual house that you have to make an appointment to see (good luck with that, by the way). Psychogeography comes into it because you're drifting around the place, observing, but not being observed. Things go on in the house as if you're not there. There's a woman washing up, and a bloke in the shower. Julie is in the process of completing an MA, part of which involves some research into quantum physics. Interestingly, there's a book 'Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative' by Amit Goswami. All very interesting, but we also discussed how easy it is to stray off the point. I have to keep my head in the game: Psychogeographic Flow in Black Country Writing. Yes. But it did make me think about how, in this novel I'm writing, there is a house - a farm - which, in terms of description, could be conveyed as a piece of art. As it is, I keep being drawn back to a particular spot here next to the river, and I keep thinking that's where some form of issue will take place.