i hope you delight in mystery
on incomprehensibility and resisting the need to be understood
i hope you delight in mystery
it bums me out that hilma af klint’s work is being used to illustrate this article about people who think there is depth in their interactions with chatbots instead of facing the reality that they’re sycophantic parrots who produce a deluge of unnecessary text giving you a false sense of certainty and training you to trust the authority of a... See more
Madeline Porsellasubstack.comsometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.
milk and cookies • why feeling lost might mean you’re finally doing it right
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control... Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
A practice all your own
Julia Cameron
For wayfinding, you need a compass and you need a direction. Not a map—a direction.