creative living

mystic Marguerite Porete

Yet, I’m stubbornly protective over my personal writing. Precisely because I care about this squishier concept of identity, and identity creation through consuming and discarding information and killing your darlings and knitting together the ideas that, like brief stars, orbit far apart.

If art is the product of many many micro decisions, I care... See more

Rebecca Solnit claims that all writing begins with a ‘cosmology of the self.’ The structure of your internal universe that flows into everything you create.

Writing is often treated as a project of making things, one piece at a time, but you write from who you are and what you care about and what true voice is yours and from leaving all the false

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Synesthesia happens naturally within language because of its inevitable compression. We have certain associations that we form so quickly that we’re not even conscious of all the layers we’ve applied to a specific concept. We each have different ones that we flatten into maybe a single word, which means each word or phrase or story evokes something... See more

I’m very often lost in a maze of my own making, seeking in my thinking and reading to constellate divergent things until they feel naturally conjoined, at the very least in the realm of images, following models like those of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, the Dutch scholar and spiritualist, and Aby Warburg, the founder of the wholly unclassifiable Warburg... See more