Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Location: Piikani Reservation, Alberta

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past week thinking about my project and where I’m headed.

I’m slowly coming to the realization, that the essence of what I set out to explore and understand, is something I could never share with a mass media audience. Instead, I have to find the middle ground, the in-between, or quite simply put, the common sense.

It all sounds so vague but I know what I’m saying. It’s a question of a feeling, of a spirit, and I guess on some level, transcendence. Transcendence rooted into the practical and the common sense.

Over the course of my journey I’ve been coming to the realization that we all grow, shift, and change, in our own time, according to our own natural rhythms. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water…

If I lay themes out in a practical manner, i.e., our current civilization is unsustainable, I only get in touch with audience logic, leaving it to them to either agree or disagree, to think about the film afterwards, and to think about and then question their reality.

For me the question is how are any of us to think while surrounded by distraction, pulling our minds elsewhere. If we meditate on a daily basis, if we take the time to get in touch, if we have the time in the first place, maybe then, we’d find ourselves truly thinking about our reality. Otherwise, I feel, my film exists as just another blip in a barrage of mainstream media, here today gone tomorrow, another fleeting flicker in a world full of interrupted thoughts. It becomes something that maybe makes the mind twitch, but rarely penetrates deeper into our lives, our habitual patterns – or our paradigm.

I do want to evoke thought, but what is becoming more important to me, is to evoke a certain spirit and make an attempt to touch people at their core.

Finding the images to evoke this spirit is what the journey right now is all about.

peace,
d