PAUL WOODROWIMAGINAIR TRAVEL SERVICEFLY TO WHERE YOU ARE11.06-20.06.1979

(Text printed on the exhibition poster)

IMAGINAIR TRAVEL SERVICE ‘Fly to where you are’

The journey is never merely a passage through time and space, but rather an expression of the urgent desire for change and self-discovery that underlies the actual movement and experience of travelling. Hence, to seek, to enquire, or to live with intensity through profound experiences are all modes of travelling, or the symbolic equivalent of the journey.

Travelling is an IMAGE of aspiration, or an unsatisfied longing that never finds its goal, see where it may. Day dreaming and acts of the imagination can be equated with travelling.

Travelling may also be related to the complete cycle of the year or to the attempt to escape from it, depending on certain secondary characteristics of the Journey.

The true journey is neither acquiescence or escape, it is EVOLUTION.

The ordeals of a journey are like the rites of passage.

The archetype of the journey is the pilgrimage to the ‘centre’ or the way out of the ‘maze’. Flying implies raising oneself, and is therefore closely connected with the symbolism of level, possibly in terms of mastery in such qualities as strength.

“…of all metaphors, on those pertaining to height, ascent, depth, descent and fall are axiomatic. Nothing can explain them, but they can explain everything.” — Gaston Bachelard

“Freedom gained by travel is no substitute for true inner liberation.”

“The need for change may be filled temporarily by a trip around the world, or by nothing more than a move to a smaller house. But none of these external changes will serve unless there has been some inner transcendence of values, in creating, not just surviving, a new pattern of life.” — C.G. Jung

“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” — T.S. Eliot

The Imaginair Travel Service gives assistance to people who intend to Participate in ‘flights of imagination’, with the purpose of coming to an understanding about the nature of the journey and its implications for everyday life.

Paul Woodrow AGENT