Wunderbar Festival : : Blogging Bath Time

Blogging Bath Time

In the buff - YES!

Really?

Well you can't really have a proper bath in your speedo's!

Camps of opinion are forming around Katy and Peter Merrington's Bath Time 'performance'; mostly among people who haven't taken part.
So if you have, it would be good to hear your thoughts too!

Having jumped in myself on Monday night, I must admit, my own impression has radically changed.
It is infact still changing!
I think this is where this performance is so interesting.
I think in actual fact I'm performing it – STILL

It was against my better judegement that I booked in in the first place.
A spur of the moment decision, with consequences unforeseen; stepping out my own comfort zone into the conforting space of a hot, soapy tub. Except this Bath Time was anything but archetypical.
Not being one to share my nakedness freely with anyone except the missus, Bath Time stirred up a cocktail of vanity and modesty.

A week long schedule of scrubbing, buffing, plucking, clensing and toning was put in place: this was to be complimented with a well rehersed plan for the day itself. And, whilst preparatory ablutions went to plan, it required a mad dash to get me their at all on the evening itslef – as fate would have it, a bath was precisely what was called for.

The bath as it happened wasn't weird, it was 'other' than weird, to the extent that it was almost 'normal'.
It was lovley and relaxed and bubbly (a benefit for ones modesty) and hot hot hot, as one would have a bath to be!
and the act of being washed equally wasn't odd, or at least not odd in the obvious sense.
It was decadent and unnecessary given the circumstances.
I didn't need to be washed – it was a passive act:
it shifted the spotlight back onto the washers, the generosity of the act;
it gave you time with your thoughts;
it gave you time in loo – as in time owed back – not I weedled in the bath!

In the beginning, the performance was for me about (perceived) bodily experiences played out in the mind. A capturing of the imagaination.
But it wasn't about the body.That is a misnomer, it was always about the mind and it still is.
That's why everyone seems to have an opinion about it – only they haven't had the benefit of the experience!

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