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Initial thoughts by Clare Williams

8/1/2013

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I was not able to come to the meeting with the brain storming session on 'Halfway between' so I did a bit of brain storming on my own.  Here are my initial thoughts.
Halfway between .........
the near and the far

the detail and the horizon

the sea and the sky………………

the land and the sky ………………is the horizon, what’s on a new horizon?

the water and the sky ……………

the top and the bottom ………… are the stairs

the start and the finish …………  is time

birth and death ……………………… is life

the lost and the found …………… are the un-discovered

Halfway between the extremes are the average ……….who wants to be average?

Halfway between the real and the unreal are the almost real, the ‘I’d like it to be real’, the ‘I wish it were real’, the ‘I feel like it’s real.
Halfway between the real and the unreal is the surreal

Halfway between the joy and the pain is the living it, the day to day relentlessness of it. 

If you can find, halfway between the mundane and the necessary, that flash of delight/excitement/wonder then your life will be enriched.  Perhaps that’s what eccentric people manage to do and that takes them away and into a whole new view of life. 

Thoughts on notes from meeting:
Gutter and Stars: 
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars” Oscar Wilde
 Halfway between the gutter and the stars is the an album by Fatboy Slim (2000)

Awake and Asleep:
Halfway between awake and asleep is the blissful state before you remember, before the memory presses down on you; sometimes that memory sneaks up on you and other days it just whams into you.

Black and White:
Halfway between black and white ….. is grey – boring
                                                      are all the other colours
Neither one thing nor another:
Surreal, imaginative, eccentric

I then made some collages on some of these thoughts; photos below.

Halfway between the land and the sky is the water

Sky, land
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Halfway between the start and the finish is time

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Halfway between the top and the bottom are the stairs

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