In Pursuit of Conciseness
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No Contradictions
No contradictions. What an absurd expectation to place upon a person or oneself. The desire to show up in the world free of contradiction can be paralysing, and it shelters us from mistakes and failures that may enlighten. It’s up to an artist to take stances, and then, if we’re open-minded enough, people and experiences…
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Hoarding Culture
Hoarding strikes me as being related to indecisiveness. Or, the very least, it’s tied up with an unwillingness and, in some cases, a chronic inability to decide. To avoid deciding now, I’ll take all I can and decide later. But, of course, it’s the negative side effects that make what seems like a good idea…
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Pulled into the Wrong Orbit
For a lot of artists when we start out, the gravitational pull is often getting better at the craft itself. We work to write a better class of song, draw a better painting, tell a more compelling story, and take a photograph that has emotional resonance But as we take our work to the world…
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Leaning into Resistance
I wrote the following last year but forgot to post it at the time. Having stumbled across it the other day, I realised that it was still relevant to me – a helpful reminder, actually – and, therefore, probably worth sharing. ———— Last week, as the sun emerged and big events descended on Cardiff, I…
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The Art of Deciding
It’s easier than ever to collect information, but at what point do we decide to stop collecting and start to apply it in a meaningful way? The stream of self-help content, for example, will never run out, but that doesn’t necessarily make it helpful. Central to this problem is the art of decisiveness, which we…