Kirsten

My creative self cares more about being in the process of creation rather than what has been made and what I might still make. Those are other parts of me but the creator in me is excited about just that. Creating.

Umbrella of what I am doing more collectively….

New ways of relating

Under this umbrella offer a bunch of experimental and exploratory experiences which look at questions of how we relate, current reality and how we might relate, options.

Often this might be looked at in a very indirect way, through some other form or modality or question.

"Interoception gives us the sense that "this is me; this is my body; this is how I feel" -Kelly Mahler

Thinking about what I want my website to feel like. What came up:

An existential labyrinth

Or

Cabinet of curiosities

Inspired by Spell of the Sensuous

Our bodies as landscapes. Maybe, even though we have also shifted our attention away from them and try to domesticate them they are the only landscape we cannot escape from, cannot isolate ourselves from and so they are our constant reminder, even if as a backdrop, but with a voice that can assert itself, that we

“As platforms combust around us, brands are frantically asking, “Where to next?”.

We’ve done a familiar dance for over a decade: users have jumped from blogs to Myspace to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat to TikTok, and brands and ads have duly followed, collecting ever more data on our lives along the way. [...]

But what if

The fact that for a second we think robots could replace us shows how little we value who or what we are and where we came from. Our lives, the journey of being here.

They might replace us but because we put them in place of us, that's it. We are creating ourselves away by not realising where creativity actually comes from. Not from us but through