Travelling Spirit
There's something in the way you walk when you're alone, when you're far from home, when you're open to what is around you, humbled and made still by the thrill of the new...
I was on tour in Europe / UK before I started this little travelling jaunt... So it's been nearly two months now of being in the slipstream of nowhere... It's liberating. Scary. Lost-making - being 'away.' It's challenging. It leaves you vulnerable and shaking-head-chuckling at the tight grip that you used to have on The Way Things Should Be In A Day... 'Take it all', I say. Let it all be torn away, leave me open and free to love again, breathe the air fresh and new and feel the pain of vulnerability and be vulnerable anyway. Again and again. Make no shelters for me to hide in, make no iron Way for me. No, I am in the slipstream and I don't want a boat.
Before I left Sydney a few months ago, Brock Fitzgerald, gave me one of his hand-hammered 'Brock bangles'. It had a little L on it and to me it signifies the brother and sisterhood of the slipstream..! Brock tours and travels constantly as a drummer for lots of bands and artists, and his gypsy spirit is very much embedded in the bangles he makes. It reminds me, when I wear it, of the huge global family of transient people - all the beautiful musicians and artists and actresses and models and entrepreneurs and flying doctors (!?) and the WHOLE LOT of us who are always moving, always on the road, gypsy-ing constantly. It is a lonely road sometimes, and tokens like this are the little things that keep you connected in quiet moments... ( I'm wearing it in these pics!) Thanks Brock : )
Lisa x P.S. These beautiful photographs were taken by the stunning woman that is Ula Blocksage. Introduced by a mutual friend, we ran around the back streets of Le Marais near the venue that I was to play that evening in Paris last month, with her cameras. Ula grew up in Australia and relocated to Paris a few years ago via other lives in other cities... Another sweet lady of the slipstream..!