3D HUMAN OF LIVING 🦴
creativity on the internet then i have to actually write about that creativity.
There is a lot of undoing. Seam pulling apart. The adjustment of expectations and wondering if the garment we are even sewing is the right fit. There is always a moment when I am sewing after a seam doesn’t line up in the right way, or something is placed in the wrong direction where I contemplate if I can withstand the mistake. What is worth the effort of undoing and what is worth “living with”? The ease in which two pieces of fabric comes together falls apart when the next 20 minutes are spent teasing that apart. Weather or not we actually deconstruct something is almost irrelevant if we are not able to tolerate the idea of actually acknowledging the placements of these two things next to each other isn’t quite right.
I feel like a defender of my peace. If my job is to write about art and creativity and being a human, the writing is only one small part. The sharing is another peice. But the actual living? The 3D human being aspect of creating. The time before an idea is even an idea is the thing.
I am part time writer
I am part time artist
I am a part time coach
I am part time teacher
But I can’t do any of those things if I am not actually out in the field doing the work. The self coaching, the space to get to an idea, the time to do nothing. The exercise of taking photos of myself in my bathroom. The opportunity to take the weird idea I have in my head, to find a way to celebrate myself. To figure out how I can bring that spark into the vision I had for it. The actual making off stuff, for stuffs sake. For following the trail just to see what happens. The process that unfolds and creative regret that starts settling in between blowing up ballon number 3 and balloon number 13.
If my job is to write about creativity on the internet then i have to actually write about that creativity. The defending of my time to sit down and find what feels present. To pay attention.The muck appears happens when we conflate “work”, with our vocation. We do so much to avoid that 3D human living.
I got the idea at the wrong time of day, I shall ignore it.
I don’t have time. There is other “more important” work to be done
And that makes a lot of sense. But there isn’t someone else to tell us the seam doesn’t line up. It is our own to unraveling. To pick apart. To find how we want to seam together our own life. What is within our agency to weave together. To defend and procure our 3D human living time. The hike, the photoshoot, the writing, the coffee and cake, the 6 hour t.v binge. The stuff that happens in between the idea and creation.
FINDINGS 🗺️
We had FLO on the pod this week and wow I love being in company with Flory but three divas in a pod room together? 🧙♀️🧙♀️🧙♀️magic 🍲🪄 we chat about not having expectations from our art + creations and being a human
filling in “busy” in your schedule when you’re planning on walking to a cafe to order a $7 drink and slice of cake. 🍽️
JANE ASHERS COSTUME BOOK ARCHIVE INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE A THIS
Hugging yourself and saying you are your own favourite artist
SLIDING SCALE COACHING BOOKS (top tip: you can book into 2023 😉)
CANADA POST SHIPPING DEADLINE IS DEC 15TH TO GET YOUR OKAY ORACLE IN YOUR HANDS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
big love and many blessings ✨
xx
Phoebe