Submitted by Rachel Tallant on the 2019 summer session program in England sponsored by the Department of Art & Design…
I was just speaking with my roommate Sasha about how coming to London has lacked this sort of all-encompassing gear change that I thought was going to happen immediately or at least a week with an epiphany of a moment. But to me, at least what I’ve felt and seen, life is still going on at its normal pace. A chord hasn’t stuck with me, a lightning bolt hasn’t jolted and hit me with endless creativity. But things are different, it isn’t as if I’m a completely different person, either. Small things are seeping in here and there. Each day we have been faced with so many different galleries, speakers, places, and all walks of life. I have been doing my best to take it all in and record as much of it as possible through my journal– to look back on later in life. From day to day I am gaining more of a routine and independence through grocery shopping, cooking, writing a blog, learning how to travel the Tube, and meeting new people, I feel very lucky and enriched to be here.
