Theatre-maker
writing,
producing,
directing,
shaping,
painting,
carrying,
shopping,
holding,
legitimising,
colouring over the lines;

hearing,
seeing,
choreographing,
holding the space
making the space
building
facilitating
fixing the boiler
noticing
creating conditions
gathering
hard-grafting
crafting

Mapping
Documenting
Seeding
Fertilising
Provoking
Idea-grafting
What-if making
Rough-hewing
Knitting of a hat (revival of a long-forgotten skill)
Baking of a cake (ditto)
Cutting and burning of hair (if the occasion demands)

Political campaigning
Policy making
Pioneering
Systemic thinking
Over the frontieering
Steering
Ripping up the map
Changing the world
Doing things I don’t know
How
To
Do
Collaging
Beach-combing
Finding the parts that are greater than my own

Story-telling
Giant-felling
Making the familiar
Strange
Making the stranger
A Friend

Being told I’m wrong
A lot
Giving as good as I get

Equalising
Taking off the pressure
Ramping up the pressure
Holding feet to the fire
Blazing out a trail
Sparking ideas from the embers

 

Flaneur

Migraineur

Provocateur

Knowing there is something

Better than this

Path-finder to the positive

 

And that’s just on a Tuesday.