Eighteen months ago, two colleagues and I managed a trip to Belgium and Holland for something we called a SEEK – where we, and eight young artists in the early stages of their careers, went on a creative adventure for inspiration. I wrote afterwards that it was easy enough to seek, but dealing with what you found was the real challenge.
One thing that came directly out of the trek to Utrecht was my book, A Festival of Martyrs. On the pier at Scheveningen, I met Harmannus, and he was inspiration for a story as well as a kicking-off point for the book. Next weekend, I’m returning to Holland to give him a copy of the book, and to try to draw out the conclusions of my thinking for the last year and a half since the last trip. I’m looking forward to some creative thinking time, and to initiating a new adventure beginning again in The Hague.