loose strands
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, care work, time impoverishment & Sustaining Your Life as an Artist
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Later, I sit myself down and pretend I’m the therapist.
“What will you have when this puzzle is finished?” the pretend-therapist asks.
“Something that looks like a life,” I blurt. “Something that feels like I lived. It’s not about pride, fame, or success. I just want to complete something—a task, a sentence, to let a train of thought run all the way
... See moreViewing creativity as the gravity point around which everything else orbits is something we have to start practicing if we care about our sanity and keeping creation a sustainable long-term practice. That is the end goal. If the process itself is what dictates and collects time as it grows, flourishes, and branches out, then time alone can’t
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Sometimes you might let something drag on too long: you miss deadlines or opportunities; you realize you’ve fallen behind on your vision; you imagined you were Lin-Manuel Miranda slowly cultivating a masterpiece, but then one day realize you’ve actually just been procrastinating. It’s tempting to react to these periods of depressed productivity by
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