Kasturi Kiri
@shoesatthe_door
Kasturi Kiri
Creation can just be editing
Stalogy notebooks (which I wrote about for the One Thing newsletter ), a Sailor fountain pen with water-resistant black ink, and a red Sakura Pigma Micron pen.
Petya K. Grady • Issue 104: The Reading Life of... Celine Nguyen
stationary
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
A memory is not a singular event, but a trail of associations.
‘...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
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
In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching... See more
the ability to stick things out and weather storms of uncertainty is what makes a man of achievement
Charleston — House Tours
charleston.org.uk
Once the search is in progress, something will be found . It’s a strategy for finishing, a strategy for trusting in my ability to complete a work.