''The West'' is no longer West, and the ''Third World'' is no longer confined to the South. Old binary models, legacies of European colonialsism and the Cold War mentaility, have been replaced by a border dialoect of ongoing flux. We now inhabit a sociosultural universe in constant motion, a moving cartography with a floating sense of self. As artists/people, we now understand that we can speak two or more languages, have two or more indentities and /or nationalities, perform different roles in multiple contexts, and not neccessarily be in conflict with ourselves and others. Contradiction is no longer penalized.''

Guilermo Gomez Pena.

I understand this quote completely and only rediscovered it recently when going through my dissertation.

I have found acheiving a balance between my own work and that of the youth arts programme to be very difficult at times. It has swallowed me almost completely and now that I have finally managed to block some time for myself, I find I am floundering as never befor....

It is going to take longer than I thought to re remember how it is I work, all I do remember is that it's slow.