lists, thoughts, and pics, oh my
Things I want to do in May:
- Take a handbuilding pottery class and paint little things on them. Mostly small jewelry dishes, candle holders, and hang-on-the-wall vases.
- Attend a riso printing workshop
- Buy pretty lingerie
- Admire all the cherry blossom trees without my phone camera
- Write a snail-mail letter to my bff in Missouri
- Make a tiny zine music playlist cut-and-paste style
hazy plane trails
My to-do list today:
- My taxes. I probably shouldn't put this off any longer.
- Decide if I'm actually going to take this job at the hospital. My entire body is saying no. But also: bills, rent, food.
- Cleaning/snipping my orchid's dead roots and replanting her in a more suitable container. She's not happy. Let's see if I can revive her.
I was thinking this morning: what would my creative practice look like if I didn't go online at all for a few months. What would I lean towards? What colors would I gravitate towards? What forms of creative output would I want to try? Is this the basis of an arts residency? You remove yourself from the everyday, from all your favorite artists, writers, and makers...and dive into a personal quiet void? How long would it take for new ideas/themes to bubble up? But also, without inspiration, how do you springboard yourself into new directions? How do I alchemize creative input without losing myself in the process?
spring delights
"I would rather die of passion than boredom." -Van Gogh