The Thought Residencies

Jessica Watkin - Thought #14 - Self-Compassion Pt. 2

Apr 30, 2020

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my fourteenth and final thought.

Here’s The Compassion Project Part 2. I've had a hard time making art without a deadline, without someone to make it for, without a gallery exhibit coming up, without an opening night looming, without a holiday to exchange gifts. But today I started my...

Jessica Watkin - Thought #13 - Self-Compassion

Apr 30, 2020

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my thirteenth thought, and this is part one of The Compassion Project.

I am too hard on myself. I am everyone else’s hype person, and I struggle to be there for me. I work so hard on so many projects and still feel I’m never doing enough. I crash and burn often, my eye crashes every...

Jessica Watkin - Thought #12 - Virtual Performance

Apr 28, 2020

I’m Jessica Watkin and this is my twelfth thought.

And I’m gonna be honest for a second about online performances and how I don’t think its interesting or engaging or useful for performance creators and performers right now to be trying to recreate the experience of in-person theatre online.

I think that, yes, we...

Jessica Watkin - Thought #11 - Fear

Apr 23, 2020

I'm Jessica Watkin and this is my eleventh thought and I'm going to tell a story today about fear.

The last time I was in London, England, I was at a show at the National Theatre and when it finished it was so dark outside, like super dark, like too dark for a Blind person to be out alone in, and I got completely...

Jessica Watkin - Thought #10 - A Walk

Apr 22, 2020

I'm Jessica Watkin and this is my tenth thought, and I am telling you the story today of being a blind person and going for a walk during the pandemic! So I'm out with my cane because I cannot see if I'm six feet away from people.

(sound of cane and wind)

(Jessica sniffles)

And so the cane helps folks stay away from...