Stay Bessie

Asleep in my bed I look like a car crash.
Teal weatherboard house has an angry cat.
Feeling exhausted.
It's nice to hold a collapse.
Doors always unlocked and high ceilings hold. Us safe
smoking and drinking on the balcony.
I'm sad and missing the one who would write to me.
So I'm sitting with Bessie, good morning company.

Stay in stay Bess. Stay In bed half the day.
Stay in stay Bess. Keep me, I feel like a wonderful stray.

It's hard to be a sleep-in
when your rooms joined to the kitchen.
But it's nice being able to say good morning to a friend
while he's making his breakfast.
Something is coming, think I'll have to kill my darlings.
It's nice to hold a collapse. So I'm sitting with Bessie, Bessie, Bess.

Stay in stay Bess. Stay In bed half the day.
Stay in stay Bess. Keep me, I feel like a wonderful stray.

... All this and I should probably move on soon... All this and I have too much to do... All this and I'm forgetting my life, in limbo. A teal weather-board house.

Life at the moment

From my notepad:

Leaning forward over the wet garden
i'm having a headspin. If you
read somebodys handwriting enough your
own starts to mold to theirs.
-Woman putting children in her
car in the rain. I held your baby
while blood came from your toddelers
head & you yelled at your husband
over the phone. You threw the phone
at the ground.

"I'm a connoisseur of roads. I've
been taisting rods my whole life.
This road will probably never end. It probably
goes all around the world."
- The Movie: My Own Private Idaho

Phone keeps beeping at me. "It
better be fucking good." I cannot
return it's mechanical enthusiasm.
The drizzel is nice though. I'm sitting.

Sk

Lovely Day

The light in my backyard will always be stunning. I stay inside laying under the carpet where nothing right or wrong. I put on this song and things get better.

Mothlight Show Preview

Hey looking for some advice for the show I'm making with one other for Brisbane Festival and Melbourne Fringe in September.

Here's the show description:

MOTHLIGHT
Award winning artist Skye Gellmann (graduate of the National Institute of Circus Arts), has created a new circus piece which tears at the essence of our primal dreams, desires, and inwardly destructive tendencies.

Mothlight is a collection of vignettes where the moth is used as a symbol for internal psychosis in relation to an industrial world gone astray. Here all extraneous elements have been removed to create a cold minimalism. Two acrobatic bodies are stripped by light, uninhibited, hyperventilating, dancing blindly, gleefully self-sabotaging, fleeting, lost, crumbed in smashed glass, flying backwards into the darkness whilst blind winged creatures emerge in their wake.

Here's the promo photo I'm thinking of using by Kat Ashworth:

What do you guys think?
Finger painters, theatre people, acrobats, urban monkeys, swamp dogs - I'm looking for a second person to perform in the show. Is anybody interested?
xSKYe

Brisbane Pilgrimage

Going on a pilgrimage to Brisbane for 42 days from June to do the Theatre show Room 328.

Trying to drum up some attention for a bike and some places to stay.

X

ps. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Room-328/114783638544445 for Room 328
pps. Some photos from one of my last journeys into the sweat.

White weatherboard house on the hill

I'm going to copy straight out of my last letter to Jorja!

There is a dog over the alleyway which howls. I hear him a lot.

Yesterday I was at a place which excited me so much I don’t know if I can describe it. It is a house in Belgrave. There was a party there the night before and I stayed in the trailer of a friends ute. Went to sleep as Kookaburras started singing and the sun was rising. 5 of the most crazy artists I know had just moved into a 2 story white weatherboard house which was once a brothel. It’s halfway up a hill in a forest of 50m high trees and ferns. Spent the day elevated on the top veranda with a few peeps. When you’re in a forest your senses really prick up. I’ve always felt like I was born in the wrong time. I’m a hunter, not a glassy or servant. Walking through the forest I strayed from the path and for a while flirted with the life I couldn’t have.

The city is so abstract. I’m lucky to have such a green remote street. But the city makes you breath shallow and unless you are fully convinced by it, you feel so alone in it. My friend Becky Bonnet did a tarot reading for me. I’m in a Hermit stage apparently, but I think it has more to do with my constant reaction against the city which can really remove me in social situations. I’m always looking in on my life.

In knowing this and after being in the forest I think I’m going to dream a new way of living, cause I realise this lifestyle is making me unhappy.

I’m not sure what I’m doing but what you said about culling things which make you unhappy is so true. First I’ll start by getting rid of stuff. I need less.

Lets become primitives! Hunters with internet addictions who live in roof cavities’ and put on shows of great strength and agility.

OK.. Now I’m loosing the plot.

Back at the white weatherboard house, my friend Tina said she was driving a van down Punt road, and in the middle of the highway engulfed in traffic were 3 colourful peeps with bikes (us). She said you guys were babes and the scene made her day.

That was a great day.

Bii, Skye

Chinese Pole - Through pain I'm born again

I did a pole training day. I wish I could show you my scars. It feels quite good to be in physical pain again! There is something about circus and sex drives which i think are quite linked. Maybe it's the pain element.

I would like to splice in lots of exciting pictures in this post. So I'm going to advertise the talents of photographer Jessica Tremp. These are some of my favourite photos at the moment.

Ok.. So I think my post show depression is clearing up. The whole, 'what am i doing with my life' questions. Training with avan today helped get some perspective. He's very good. Very exciting seeing the first half of his new chinese pole ruitien. It's total world class. Totally blows everybody in Australia out of the water, and better then anything i've seen anybody else do on youtube. Very inspiring.

Good seeing Avan and the Caravan of Dooom people training and it all feels quite positive being back to zero on a number of levels.

Going to do a photo shoot for a brand new project with Jessica soon I hope.

Been writing letters again too!