Confluence: The place at which two streams flow together to form one larger stream.Confluence: a videoblog exchange between poet, Vik Bennett and film-artist, Jenny McCabe, current artists in residence at Beaumont College, Lancaster, UK.Confluence: a weekly videoblog dialogue that explores the creative process.This is how it works...1. The artists will do a weekly email exchange of a quote/question/word/image as a starting point for exploration;2. The artists will then independently create a video each, in response to the received emails;3. The videoblogs will be posted online by the artists at the end of each week, thus creating a creative dialogue, or flow of ideas...
Question from Jenny: Are you a sensualist or a sensationalist?
"...for the artist, this sense that she is herself the text, means that there is little difference between her life and her art...the effect of a life experienced as an art or an art experienced as a kind of life..." (Susan Gubar: The Blank Page and Female Creativity)
'Drawing is looking. Keyboarding is calculating.'
There are lines that leadto truth beneath the skin;held in the borderbetween the out breath and the breathing in.(Begin, from Byron Makes His Bed: V.Bennett)  Poems live within our bodies. An ancient song within us all. My 'job' is to be an archeologist of stories, a digger of words, a travelling company along the journey of life...