little meeting

Susie and I head into the art school to hook up with Jonathan, just to keep each other supported and informed as to developments etc. We head to the library (for coffee, not books) and sit on the lawn, discussing life in general - which is indirectly pertinent to our MFA course.

Jonathan wants to leave Aberdeen, he's fed up with it all here - mostly inspired by the lovely people who inhabit union street after 9pm (he'd encountered a particularly lecherous and drunken oaf after the Aberdeen artists' opening he'd said, which started him really thinking about where he is in life. He also seems to be having some troubles at home, but in his inimitable, secretive and poetic fashion, we are non the wiser.

Susie is getting all scientific, in an artistic way (?!) she'd logging temperatures, cloud cover etc, all for her documentation of her swimming - an immersion (physically) into the landscape. Some cross pollination of "information gathering and usage" with my practice...we've got a lot in common, which is helpful - to sing from the same hymn sheet is always a bonus!

I talk about my questionnaire, and we start the debate about "what truth is"...and we've all got some semblance of understanding, about how it's all to do with perception, points of view (physically and mentally), about how one "truth" is a lie to others. They do worry it's "a large area" to look at, but I am sure I can fine tune the research to question technologies role in conveying "a truth" (news, television, information points (town centres etc).