Today I picked up the wood for the screen which is going to be huge 8'x6'. Other than that I haven't accomplished a whole lot, materially or conceptually. The ideas for the characters are beginnign to bleed into one another. I'm hopeful that I will be able to put together something more amorphous and abstract then what I have done in the past. I'm really looking forward to having the screen to experiment with, and coming to terms with the fact that I won't have the imaginary actors that I thought would suddenly materialize. Apparently yesterday was a solar eclipse? I read over Magnetic North today, this book created for a Canadian experimental video show, and it was really uninspiring because video doesn't really work well with books, and it reminded me that there is such a lack of access!
Anyway one of the “characters” who are all melding into each other anyway, I guess if I thought about it that would have been obvious from the beginning, is going to be loosely based on Reed Erickson. He was a trans man who ran a successful lead smelting business or something, but then got involved in all sorts of new age stuff, built the “Love Joy Palace” in Mexico and had a pet leopard named Henry. Most of his biographers are interested in his philanthropy, but I'm more into his bizarre opulence. I think another character will be kind of bratty like Kim Deal.
I am starting to realize that most of this thought work is just preparing me emotionally/mentally and won't necessarily be readable on screen. Except for the jaguar.
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