Everything you want is on the other side of “should.”

I was dead tired of “should-ing” myself into productivity and overriding my own creative impulse and rhythm.

I even resisted sitting at a desk, so my studio mates rarely saw me, and most of my work was done in nature, underneath trees, by the water, and sometimes in cafés, galleries, and the botanical garden. And the rest was a vast, empty space that I didn’t know how to navigate any more than I knew how to start drawing from a blank piece of paper.