I did not do my art today

Today I would like to give you a few thoughts that hopefully will inspire us all to see our “outcomes” in a more relaxed way and to get into an artistic-creative-mediating activity that feels right. That we don’t do because just, or because we have a certain function now, or because we have to talk ourselves into it, or because we want to post something on Instagram again, but because we just want to live well.

photo by the author’s daughter

I’m inspired by Australian Madeleine Dore, who wrote a great book about the productivity craze called, “I didn’t do the thing today.” (Madeleine Dore: I didn’t do the thing today, Murdoch Books Australia, Crows Nest, 2022.) Still, I will be more specific about the motivation for creating artistic and design processes.

How do we get from “I didn’t do my art today” to “I did do my art today”? It’s about motivation, lurching, creative doing and creative not doing.

Today I would like to give you a few thoughts that hopefully will inspire us all to see our “outcomes” in a more relaxed way and to get into an artistic-creative-mediating activity that feels right. That we don’t…