I guess we all know the shortest distance between two points is not really a straight line. Matter of fact, in reality, I have never done what I set out to do. Things change. Stimuli gets altered. Circumstances vary. The wind changes direction. All pretty normal for me. The way it has always been in my experience. So while some of you may think it a bit odd that I would turn the camper van around and now go back to Los Angeles on what was originally billed as a journey from Los Angeles to New York, my old friends who know me well were just waiting for some version of the same. They will smile and say “of course”.
Fact is, I did not run out of gas, but I did run out of time. There is no way to get from where I am now in Durango, Colorado to New York within the two weeks or so I have left to do this chapter of Off For A Family Drive. Sure I could “make it”, yet that is not the point. So I am turning around and heading back to where I started and yet taking a different route both geographically and psychologically.
This is all part of process.
For sure it happens every single time to me one way or another. The creative process is never a straight line. Check out the video below. Shot a few weeks ago in Chile. How can this video relate to this trip? Well it does. Because the “trip” is nothing. It is all about state of mind. So I am going now to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. Just those two places will wrap up this chapter. There will be more of course. Maybe done in a different way. Technique is just technique. So stay tuned. You may be very surprised in how this adventure turns out. Does any really interesting trip turn out the way anyone on it thought it would be? Oh no, it is the misadventure that becomes way more interesting than the original concept.
For those of you who were planning to meet us in New Orleans, sorry. Not now. Yet later for sure.
Vegas? hmmm, not my town in theory, yet I am a gambler to the core.
MICHAEL,
“Go in beauty.”
Certainly used in the context of ‘have a safe trip.’
I owe you a beer at very least!
Next time you’re here or I’m there! Cheers.
Cheers to all non-linear pursuits!
“linear thinkers just won’t get it…”
Indeed…
David…
After reading your last comment I’m convinced you’re in the “Zone” :)!!
David,
keeping things loos and be open to changes i thinks thats a must! like what you said in the interview, “demaciado comodo es igual a demaciado aburrido”, been expose to the kind of media implies critics and that has to be part of the work is a lucky thing this times and the internet has now I think.
keep it going! sure i want to see the final result of this trip
and hope your house and cats are good too!
Goodness, I just love your words and thoughts. True as they come. I am learning, watching and learning, and I love what you are doing here.
wow!
So nice interview… wonderful David!
I your words= energy…
thank you
“Literal thinkers just won’t get it…” I think we’ve just been insulted.
AKAKY IRL: Thinking’s got nothing to do with it, bubba. I know we’ve just been insulted.
AKAKY: Oh. Okay. I’m glad that’s cleared up.
AKAKY IRL: Always glad to help, guy.