Kasturi Kiri
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Kasturi Kiri
Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Making connections between ideas (or curation) is a valid and robust form of creativity
Projects have been filed, things are being read and re-read, the work seems to be going vaguely in the right direction. I should be happy, or at least satisfied! But I am not! The only thing that has defined this period is a vague, indiscriminate ennui that pervades everything. It’s like I’ve been pouring myself into a vessel that’s too small. Or... See more
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
You might not be pouring your energy into the right thing.
Gathering is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Readers don’t have short attention spans—they have short enchantment spans .
Celine Nguyen • In Praise of Writing on the Internet
Creation can just be editing
For five years, I’ve ceased to experience with shame what can be experienced with pleasure and triumph (sexuality, jealousy, class differences). Shame spreads over everything, prevents any further progress.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Actively counterbalance shame with pleasure, pride and joy.
Shame is unnecessary and contagious.
Card quote from Annie Ernaux’s Getting Lost
Always work (note, write) from your own interest, never from what you think you should be noting or writing. Trust your own interest.
Petya K. Grady • Issue 104: The Reading Life of... Celine Nguyen
Focus on what interests you, not what others expect of you
‘...she takes a stiff-bristled brush and loads it with a dark greenish-brown, the colour of first shade, and with sweeping movements, she covers the image with darkness, obliterating the lovers, sealing them inside a tomb of paint...it is all gone, hidden for ever, the only sign the scene was ever there the slight undulations in the paint’s... See more
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
From Maggie O’ Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait, describing Lucrezia painting over her paintings