Ups and Downs

Some days I really look forward to my hour, other days I'm in a cold sweat.

I've been to Trafalgar Square quite a few times now as well as visiting the One and Other video stream practically every day and find myself wondering what the most interesting thing is about the whole thing. From the start, I've not considered what people actually do on the plinth as being the most important aspect and felt that it was just the overall occupation of that space that was the whole point. However, I now see that as much as anything it's the interaction of the "plinthers" with the people around them that is becoming the point. I'm sure most of the plinthers volunteered just to be part of something (without necessarily thinking it all the way through) and most of them are patently NOT performers. But, performance is what most of the crowd seem to want - can any of us "non-performers" satisfy them and yet still give a picture of what we are about? I admire those people determined to just stand and "be" on the plinth. I know I haven't got the bottle for that, so I'm hoping to deliver four discrete pictures of me that will (hopefully) confuse the crowd enough for them to miss my lack of performing ability!
So you can see that my way of interacting is to avoid it as much as possible.....