There is a post-it on my wall right where I sit and work, it reads out: Courage and Patience. It helps in calibrating my mind by keeping these two words close to me. Something I would like to practice more of.
Apart from drawing, I think I try to exercise courage in my practice by regularly putting out my creative work into the world, but I have been running out of patience with the pace and workings of social media platforms. In the blink of an eye, we see posts appear and disappear, to be lost forever into a bottomless feed. Words and pictures don’t really sit down. Something is constantly replacing the other. The appetite is met with stimulation, and yet there is something else over the edge. And it gets exhausting as one scroll or swipes, with the sensory overload of information and visuals.
I wanted (and needed) to have a place slower and quieter. Hence, here we are. I hope I am able to meet you here on the web, in your inbox - hopefully away from the black rectangle, even just once in a while.
