But there is a reason why I have always had difficulty keeping a regular diary – life has always been so busy being lived. ‘Life in Armchair Time’ is a body of work about ‘Everyday Edges’ that looks at necessity, potential and attempts to create ‘new normals’ in my personal everyday life at home. !!Ref to Susan Sontag ‘On Photography’ about memories and snapshots I want to remember it as it was at the time, not just after my brain has sloshed them around to try and clean them and hung them out to dry.
Something to remind me in case a time comes when all I have energy left for is memory. With access to the large TV screen to the world, if I am not already personally stressed, I find stresses either responding to everyday events bombarding me in the news and advertising – donkeys, cats, young girls all over the world needing my help – then wars and climate disasters not to speak of Novak Jokovich’s all-important visa.Īt the same time, I feel compelled to somehow remember and record this time, to slow life down as it flashes past one day merging into the next. Reflecting on guilt, inertia and life moments not grasped.
There are always so many things to keep me sitting to avoid doing. Even from my comfortable armchair my personal and psychological life seems constantly ‘on the edge’.
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