Hi everybody and welcome to episode 138 of Art Juice. This is honest Generous and humorous conversations to feed your

creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan.

And this week we're our main topic was inspired by the sudden outage of our lives when Instagram, Facebook and

what's that disappeared and everybody went, uah, what's this fresh air stuff?

What's this real world?

So we've got that to talk about, but before we get onto that,

and we just want to talk about that, I suppose in the terms of what it brought up for each of us but first of all what

have you been up to Alice? Well it's been it always feels like quite a gap doesn't it when we have a longer period

yeah lovely Joe on last week and sometimes when it's week to week I think oh

everything's the same week to week and then we have a two week gap and I think so much has changed.

Yeah funny our perception of time.

So since you and I last spoke I've been away on a kind of business mastermindy thing and it's interesting because I think often we get questions about you know what is the right kind of workshop to take or where where should I be going

next with my work or what do I want to learn about and I just always find it doesn't

matter what it is but time periods away from home really help you view things

from a little bit of a distance and put things in context and so yeah that wasn't that wasn't an art related thing but it was just it was nice to get out and about talk to different people get a different take on a number of things going on in life at the moment and quite weird to be in a

hotel on my own for three nights.

Well yeah although I wouldn't want to do the food part I have to say that the limited to

crappy bread for breakfast and it wasn't the best for breakfast you you you

appreciate your home comforts and what you have in your home space when you get to choose, I think, when some of those things disappear. But yeah, so that, and then I've come back and I went back to the studio and it was looking all a bit but

dry you know how studios look when they're completely empty of work they're not that much

fun where they're so packed and you can't move either, but when they're sort of empty they look a bit sad and pathetic and bedraggled, don't they? So I had a good morning, the other morning having a thorough just I moved things around you

know I shifted things there are things that I want to get prepared for perhaps for

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