ABOUT
EDEN is the first project by FREI; there are further ones in the pipeline: more on those as they evolve.
I'm calling EDEN a 'concept narrative', because it may or may not be/become/befit any of a number of things, such as an experiment in publishing, a blueprint for a performance piece, a crossover creation, or something I haven't yet thought of.
So I've started it as a blog with attendant, dedicated pages on Facebook, Ello, Minds and Tumblr. There's a Twitter feed, of course, and the whole project is now also being fed through to Medium.
EDEN sets out from the simple, oft-posed, question: what do you say or do if, halfway through your life, you happen to bump into your younger self? It then goes off on wildly tangential meanders of observation and ponderages on meaning before reaching any sort of conclusion. (Though it does reach some sort of conclusion...)
And because it's by nature a mash-up of invented autobiography and experienced imagination, I've decided to do this as FREI – frei in Swiss and German means 'free', and it's also a serviceably apt acronym in English: Forget Rules: Explore & Invent. (There's a less subtle way of putting it, but why be crude when that's not necessary...)
It's also my actual, official and original surname: so now you could call it my metanym.
Perhaps, then, what FREI is about is connecting with what was at the core, at the beginning: a sense of adventure, of setting out to forge an identity with nothing to lose or to fear, an openness to discover through doing, through travel, through encounter; the unashamed, frivolous wonder of living and finding a way of losing yourself in our shared existence through simply creating.
1st August 2015 was the thirtieth anniversary of my arrival in London – that seemed as good a date as any to launch EDEN.
You can follow EDEN here or on Medium , or through any of these:
Facebook
Twitter
Ello
Tumblr
Minds
I'm calling EDEN a 'concept narrative', because it may or may not be/become/befit any of a number of things, such as an experiment in publishing, a blueprint for a performance piece, a crossover creation, or something I haven't yet thought of.
So I've started it as a blog with attendant, dedicated pages on Facebook, Ello, Minds and Tumblr. There's a Twitter feed, of course, and the whole project is now also being fed through to Medium.
EDEN sets out from the simple, oft-posed, question: what do you say or do if, halfway through your life, you happen to bump into your younger self? It then goes off on wildly tangential meanders of observation and ponderages on meaning before reaching any sort of conclusion. (Though it does reach some sort of conclusion...)
And because it's by nature a mash-up of invented autobiography and experienced imagination, I've decided to do this as FREI – frei in Swiss and German means 'free', and it's also a serviceably apt acronym in English: Forget Rules: Explore & Invent. (There's a less subtle way of putting it, but why be crude when that's not necessary...)
It's also my actual, official and original surname: so now you could call it my metanym.
Perhaps, then, what FREI is about is connecting with what was at the core, at the beginning: a sense of adventure, of setting out to forge an identity with nothing to lose or to fear, an openness to discover through doing, through travel, through encounter; the unashamed, frivolous wonder of living and finding a way of losing yourself in our shared existence through simply creating.
1st August 2015 was the thirtieth anniversary of my arrival in London – that seemed as good a date as any to launch EDEN.
You can follow EDEN here or on Medium , or through any of these:
Ello
Tumblr
Minds