Category: Making

Is it possible to find pleasure in habit? To turn ‘chores’ into something more enjoyable?

Are unbroken writing streaks really that good for me? What if I broke the cardinal rule – write every week – to do something different?

When the goalposts for what success looks like keep moving (either of my own doing or of the culture’s), then what’s succesful anymore?

What should painters paint? What should illustrators illustrate?

When you work in books, people assume you’re a book person. But, what happens when that’s not true? What if, for you, it was cinema?

We think that we need to have an idea in order to get started but, perhaps, it’s the opposite way around?

Do ideas come to us through divine inspiration? Or do we just need to pick up a pencil or pen and begin so that we find an idea?

There is a benefit to collaborations and commissions that involve an artist making work that their unconscious bias has prevented thus far

When are we avoiding action because of fear versus needing to be patient for the work to find it’s place and time.

While there’s value in imposing constraints on one’s art practice, the opposite is probably true, but how do we decide?