Creative Living
#Grounded: Climate storyteller Aditi Mayer and director Simrah Farrukh collaborate on a lyrical stream of consciousness that meditates on home, displacement, and erasure - set against intimate portraits of home, both as architecture and ecology đżâ
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Together, they build visual testaments that trace the emotional and... See more
nownessinstagram.comInteresting piece connecting displacement, erasure, choosing stewardship in hard times⊠and home as a practice.
Creativity and expression as ultimate freedom & source of joy.
The consistency trap: why women need to stop living by male biology
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Community is ESSENTIAL
The default mode network, once associated solely with daydreaming, is now linked to many different functions core to human connection and well-being. These include personal identity, sense of meaning, empathy, imagination, and creativity as well as embodied cognition, which allows us to place ourselves in a piece of artwork and make us feel what... See more
Your Brain on Art: The Case for Neuroaesthetics
Daydreaming is VITAL. It is not a waste of time to dream, imagine, and brainstorm. It is significant to our well-being, including our sense of self.
âThere is no pain in my life that has not been given value by the alchemy of creative attention.â
â Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
When people come to me and say, âIâd like to be an artist.â I say, âWell, youâre not. You either are or youâre not.â Itâs like breathing. You donât question breathing, you just breathe. So you just wake up in the morning and you create. That urge to create makes you an artist but it doesnât make you a great artist. The great artist has to really,
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