Walking in This World week 7, Task 2 - Geography

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Sorry this has taken so long.  I did the exercise at one point, but I was rushing to be done by lunch time, so I realized at the end of the project I had left out a bunch of things and included a few more that were tangential.

As previously, the creation of a collage using internet images is a very interesting experience, and quite different from cutting out photos from magazines.  Of course, several of the photos in this collage are mine anyway, so I guess it is no surprise that they represent more or less what I want.

(copyright Julia Cameron)

Begin by considering the following questions:

1. What culture other than your own speaks to you?
2. What age other than the one we're in resonates with your sensibilities?
   
3. What foreign cuisine feels like home to your palate?
   
4. What exotic smells give you a sense of expansion and well-being?
   
5. What spiritual tradition intrigues you beyond your own?
   
6. What music from another culture tugs at your heartstrings?
   
7. In another age, what physical age do you see yourself being?
   
8. In another culture and time, what is your sex?
   
9. Do you enjoy period movies?  Or movies, period?
   
10. If you were to write a film, what age and time, what place and predicament, would you choose to explore?
    

Now collect a large and colorful stash of magazines and, if possible, catalogues.  Find a good photo of yourself and place it in the center of a large sheet of posterboard.  Working rapidly, select images from your magazines and catalogues and use them to establish your leading character - you - in an imaginary world filed with beloved objects and interests.

1. What culture other than your own speaks to you?  Lots of them.  Pacific NW Native American springs to mind, but also African, Asian, and Australian aboriginal.
2. What age other than the one we're in resonates with your sensibilities?  The next one.
3. What foreign cuisine feels like home to your palate?  Japanese
4. What exotic smells give you a sense of expansion and well-being?  Horse manure (in non-industrial quantities).
5. What spiritual tradition intrigues you beyond your own?  Buddhism. Society of Friends
6. What music from another culture tugs at your heartstrings?  African and Middle Eastern electronica.
7. In another age, what physical age do you see yourself being?  Either in the negative numbers, or really, really, really old.
8. In another culture and time, what is your sex?  For most cultures, times, and places I am going to be male because in most cultures, times, and places, females didn't have it so good.
9. Do you enjoy period movies?  Or movies, period?  Yes to both.
10. If you were to write a film, what age and time, what place and predicament, would you choose to explore?  I would write a film about the future, where all of today's problems are solved and people struggle with entirely new problems, some of which we would find it hard to imagine.

As for my collage - well, I didn't really think it had much to do with the questions listed above, except that I did think of things that I found comforting or beloved and made sure to put them in.