We're finally out in the open, so to speak, but questions remain. We have the squabbles and the lines and circumstances leading us from this place to that. The obstacles James and Jenny's encounter are beginning to shuffle between the chapters. The real organization issue though, I am finding now, is character based. I want to know what they're thinking. I want to hear their observations of the world, and know more about them in the sense one gets by oral storytelling - the stories one tells over and over to people they first meet - "the time when...."
Then there are artifacts - the photos and keepsakes - I'd like to see those. What you take and what you jettison over time. What importance was once laid upon an object and what must have changed when the object is discarded. In this we open the door a little wider to the things that make one person shape their view of another. This would hold true for Jenny to James, in reverse, and to us as viewers - hopefully participants.
And the simple actions to clean, and groom and keep oneself healthy. The act of shaving of seeing your bald face or of washing your hair. I have an image of a cool blue dawn in which Jenny cuts James hair back with a razor in a clearing in the woods. Something deep and truthful resides in this image. Somewhere there is a place for this.
