Weeeeeeeeee!!
As I come to ponder this page, I am filled with a flood of rollercoaster madness.
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The declaration turned title, ENJOY the RIDE, is the springboard of my acknowledging our shared obsession with speed and dips and loops and twists. Perhaps the past memorial long weekend provides a bounce to this connection as well... it seems to host a call to wild abandonment and exuberant yalping. The red lines of this spread speak to me of tracks too - and I must give props to myself for the collaged in climber... I must say, she makes the page for me... climbing to new heights, prepared to jump from the highest point!
Yes, we have been known to indulge in binge cycles of amusement park ambushing. Though neither Cec nor I were engaged directly in rollercoastering this past week, I could easily metaphorize our fully engaged lives onto the cart chain of an old wooden rickety or new aeordynamic multicolored breed of coaster. We are both buckled in and sending our energies on a path of ups and downs with opportunities for screaming and laughing in joy and fear with exhausting releasing effects. More on all that to come.
It's really appropriate to have the opportunity to share this spread this week. It is the flipside of last weeks "identity" spread; a continuation on the path of mirroring we began to tread two weeks ago with the "noticias" spread. As a rollercoaster often swerves back and forth through different planes of the same dimension, we too, reserve the right to swerve to and fro along the lemniscate of our internal ride revelers. In other words, we have more to say on the past, present and future... so, enjoy the ride!
-J.
editors post note: this is funny...after I posted the accolades to myself for the sweet climber placement in this weeks spread, ceci sent me the following note - "dude, the climber in this week's page. I clearly remember putting her in there. cutting the close contour around her figure and finding the exact red lines that her position fit so perfectly in. hmmmm. you too? well, that's funny :) ". ... So, I actually trust Ceci's memory more than my own, and I will easily concede to her version, however, I will hold fast to admitting I was sure i had put her in there because there is such a strong connection in me to the image - and thus, I now give props to myself for bringing light to another mystery of zbook... the overwhelming experience of shared flow which has guided the creation of zbook - leading us (or just me perhaps) to wonder often, did I do that, or did you?!
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and so we have concluded that it must have been Jennifer that had initially cut out the image from some periodical in the first place, and then as so many do, the image became a "floater" in ZBOOK until I fished it out one day and cut out the figure from the square of paper she lived on and placed her here. no wonder you have such a strong tie with her Hemphill! and that is so telling of how interwoven our process is in our collaborative book work. the answer to the ever bubbling question of "did I do that, or did you?" is so often YES! because we both have had our own close contact with so many of the same components of these pages. many times I feel our individual voices come through, many times I feel our inter-collective voice come through, and sometimes a greater collective voice that doesn't seem to be from us at all, but simply acting through us, speaking from the ether of aeons of life.
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To see the two pages with images formed by fragmented pieces, united by the red lined ladder, that offers the climber a way to get it together. Climbing up to wholeness! Figurative, a series of ascending stages by which one may advance.
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