Once you realise that there are more projects in your brain than you have time in your life to make, how do you choose?
Paralysed by scarcity
Category: Starting
If no one saw it, would I still make it?
If the answer to this question is yes, I know I’m on to something.
Getting a feel for the thing
What if ‘writing’ your story or your idea didn’t involve using words but, instead, you did it with pictures, first?
Staring at clouds
Why is it so difficult to give ourselves permission to stare at clouds when we’re at adults, especially when it pays off so consistently?
Starting the engine
Starting is and has always been the most difficult bit of art making for me. But knowing that if I turn the key, the rest writes itself, makes it easier.
A wilderness with a map
Can anyone teach you how to be your authentic self?
I’ve never done this before
Almost everything we’ve done before was, at some point, something we’d never done before. So what can we learn from this?
Why bother?
Why bother trying to make art? If it’s all been done already, surely there’s no point. Right?
New shoes
Maybe what we wear matters more thank we think when we’re making art?
Art as therapy
What if we were able to tell ourselves a story to be OK with prioritising art in our lives? What sort of work would we make?