Abby

The Centre for the Less Good Idea: comes from the Setswana proverb - “if the good doctor can't cure you, find the less good doctor”

The centre is an art centre collaboration between William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace, FT HTSI, 26 April 2025

Investigate the pauses. Yes, this is what I feel like I am doing. Finding the shards of light on the floorboards and stepping into them whenever they appear.

Layla O'Mara, Beauty & Bone (March 25)

I am also worrying about my own diversity - about having the best, most alive parts of myself paved over by a ruthless logic of use. …it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unusable parts, my own mystery, and my own depths.

[How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell, p183]

“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”

Trish Deseine

I wonder what it would be like to experience a social network that was completely grounded in space and time, something you had to travel to in order to use, that worked slowly. [How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell, p166] (reverse of Meyrowitz's thought experiment, p160'-163)

modern hand embroidery - touchable drawings; think of it as art, not craft; projects: small scale to represent what you experience each day; cartoon paper as the transferable medium; make own sketches (live or based on photos), transfer and stitch to explore what styles resonate; use imags created by others and pull out the details which speak to y