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Have I lost my creativity?!?
Is it art block or something more sinister? Do you feel, as I do, that there are no ideas swirling in the maelstrom of your mind? No matter how often pinterest is opened, closed or refreshed, nothing ever gets off the ground. Maybe it’s an art supply or materials issue, so you keep adding to cart in hopes of filling that void, but unboxing your “gifts” only brings a flicker of joy, gone too soon. Sketchbooks, canvases, paper lay barren and you don’t have the energy anymore. What happened? You were so full of ideas, bursting at the seams, and now, just a shell. Discarded and empty. This is where…
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Overcome burnout through creation
It’s been a long week, and it feels like there’s no rest in sight. The creative juices aren’t flowing as well as we’d like them to and we are tired, mentally and physically, stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of work, eat, sleep. Rinse and repeat. Although that may be manageable in the short term, just like a tiny crack in a structural part, there is a creep, slowly propagating as we apply more load and eventually, that crack becomes bigger and bigger until a final snap brings it to an end. When analogous cracks appear in our life, patching the cracks sounds like a great idea until they start…
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How lovely are the stars before dawn!
I’m not a morning person, at least not by choice. There are times where waking up early before a commute to work is…uncomfortable. It does not fill me joy to leave the safe refuge of the blankets but it must be done. There are some days (or perhaps some nights) however, where there is a sense of stillness and calm that cannot be found in the daylight hours. Soft jazz playing in the background and the comforting darkness clouds the early morning in an ethereal haze, mystical. The greatest joy is the twinkle beyond the curtains, opening up to reveal shining gemstones in the vast night sky. In the morning…
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Coronavirus: Crisis and Curiosity
When the pandemic started getting widespread, I observed that people began reverting back to hobbies that were abandoned or forgotten. But now that we are showing signs of improvement(at least here in Australia), where does that leave all the sourdough fanatics and avid gardeners? Is “back to work” synonymous with “no time for hobbies”? Will the 9-5 leave no room to enjoy the small things or are we on the verge of a shift, has this global crisis caused us to reconsider the way we live and what will happen? These are questions I don’t know the answer to, at least not yet, but what I can show is that…
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Creativity as a tool for the introvert.
I am a textbook introvert, give me two hours of socialising and I’m knackered. Over the past few months of soul searching, what I’ve realised is that this introversion has often been the underlying catalyst for my ideas and inspirations. Generally, an introvert is one who gains energy by spending time alone and tends to feel tired after a certain amount of socialising. In spending time alone, I often find that my mind is buzzing with ideas and interesting revelations that socialising simply cannot replicate. I believe this harks back to the comfort and emotional freedom introverts have when alone. These “shower thoughts” acts a means for the introvert to…
