Ebbs & Flo
A digital journal for memory marking and meaning making. Always drawing: visuals, connections, and changes.
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Maybe the Art of Letting Go is to Hold (opens the original)
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Last month, I held a public funeral for potential and explicitly named each creative prospect that had gone and rotted in my head. They sat too long without rooting or ripening and occupied my mental space until it became anxious should-do’s and no longer interesting musings. So I named each of them before letting them fully die in honor and gratitude.The update: interestingly enough— and unsurprisingly to the actively creative— while I had deliberately not returned to the studio that same day t
A Funeral for Potential (opens the original)
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One of the aspects of creativity I love most is the nonlinear process: it feels like synchronicity, intuition, magic, divination, and honoring (among others) depending on the day and project or season of life. It ceases to amaze, grow, and delight me.But I struggle with trusting it too. Every creative process (of my own work) inevitably involves an uncomfortable phase of feeling scattered, disparate, messy, incoherent, uncertain, and even futile. It ensures I question my sanity and ability. <a c
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