Reading through old notebooks and diaries can be like receiving messages from yourself in the past. I'm always delighted to find pages of ideas, sketches and letters thought to be long buried and forgotten. I'm also amazed at the links between the creative process now and then - similar themes recur in a spiral throughout the years. I found some pages of free association towards a script for a performance, The Flower Show––
––which I'll probably use, along with the script, as raw material for a piece of new writing.
Doodle Art - from the margins of an old diary, among the dates, budget notes and meetings, lurk miniature sketches of characters and costumes. And here's an old painted box with some more buttons inside, and a small blue dancer.