“What is material? A necessary evil,” Thom Puckey: “The possibility of a sculptural language comparable to words in literature or flickering images in film: i.e. not locked in material or trapped in an obsession with material.”

I picked up God and Sex, a novel by Jon Raymond. The first lines say that for a reader a book, although zigzagging down the page, presents a straight line from end to end, but that for a writer it is a sphere. Although infinitely correctable it comes to its

* In theatre we do the opposite of how emotions are formed: we embody emotions * Emotions form by the association of physical, social or cultural—including aesthetic and intellectual—actions with the feelings that we have words for, like pain, happiness, nostalgia, grief, anger, love and hate. Bergson says (again with

Chenby and I when we went upstairs to the auditorium at the Ellen Melville Centre where we conduct the workshops were met by Potato and Cindy as last week, now joined by Nancy, Jung a third, whose name escapes me, the ladies from the Chinese Dance Group which uses the