Nina Pope, Summerhill, Hawkshead Hill, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0PP Dear Howard, Further to our phone conversation today I'm forwarding you more details for our 'collaborative lie'. I have enclosed a 'flow diagram' which we all made relatively early on during our residency here at Grizedale. The diagram was an attempt to pull together all the threads we'd begun to research. I have also included four pages from my personal sketch book and some images. One diagram is from the start of the project and then there are 3 covering different aspects of our developing work - David Shuttleworth (the rally driver), Estate Agents, and the Grotto event (that I mentioned is happening on Sunday). Our idea is to each collaborate with one of the area's leading 'liars' to expand on the anecdotes and ideas that have stimulated our projects here. These lies would eventually be threaded together by us, perhaps into a performance or an on-line text. Whilst researching several 'local personalities' we have been told so many interlinked facts and stories that we felt only a long 'lie' might do justice to the information we have gathered. The information enclosed is one attempt to note down many of the different links we have encountered - I would like to commission you to work with me to develop this into a lie. Once you have had a chance to look over the material please do get back in touch and we can hopefully meet up to discuss the lie further in January. Very briefly I should explain that we are all digital artists (Nina Pope, Karen Guthrie, Anna Best and Simon Poulter) - Karen and I usually work together but for this project we put a proposal together with Adam (the new director at Grizedale) to work collaboratively as a foursome. We all met originally on a week long digital arts workshop at Dartington Hall. Our work is pretty diverse but often involves working with a specific audience who become involved in the production of a piece utilizing new media. If you would like to know more about our other work I'd be very happy to bring some examples along when we meet in January - all the artists are keen to visit your pub! Yours sincerely, Nina