Finding a quiet space in which to create is perhaps one of the single most important prerequisites for creative work. This is true now as it has always been, despite the popular modern convention towards collaborative workspaces. Spaces where we allow ourselves to be herded like cattle into boxes by corporate entities who pretend through their willful managers, to care for our wellbeing. They don’t.
Solitude
Finding Time For Self In The Elaborate Game
There is no me, and there is no you, that is fixed and permanent at least. Whatever we are changes depending on the people we are with, the places we visit and the experiences we have in the elaborate game going on around us. But many of us don’t see that. Although I might take my existence as fixed – I am Larry Maguire, artist and writer from Dublin Ireland, for example – I also constantly change both physically and psychically even as I sit here doing nothing.
Lazy Sunday Morning Thoughts On Slow Paced Life
Lazy Sunday Morning It’s one of those lazy Sunday mornings here for me. You know those days – the ones where you’ve nothing to do except stay in bed, stare out the window or read a book. Slow is good. It’s better than fast in my opinion although there was a time when it was […]
Enjoy The Silence; Diary Of An Introverted Antisocial
It was a Thursday morning last, I think… I sat on the dark wooden kitchen chair with it’s tall back against the side wall of the kitchen, where the massive matching dining table sits. I had my customary strong cup of Lavazza coffee fresh from the Italian stove top caffettiera, sitting on one of the colourful […]