the continuing conversation between art and life
Malcolm Guite: "I once had a conversation with the poet Seamus Heaney on when poetry lives and works in people, as opposed to being printed on a page or worse still, studied in a university somewhere - when does it actually become poetry? We both agreed that it first becomes poetry when it shimmers into …
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What would happen if you did a little sketch daily? Or a little sentence? And what if you didn't hide them in a notebook, but PUT THEM UP on a wall, to see? I found this artist's video interview today - she is talking about her exhibition (on urban decay) but she could have been …
If you're creative but not creating, I happened upon a letter written to you - hope you don't mind me reading your mail - A Letter to Creatives Not Creating By Erin Lindstrom Darling, you’re an artist. Yup. You are. Even if you’re not writing/painting/photographing right this minute. It’s in you. Like it or …
Feel you want to write or draw something, but just not sure what to tackle, today? Or want fresh warmup challenges? Sketchbook Skool have given a challenge a day for August! What do you mean - it's a little bit late telling us this, August has started already?! Do I hear dissension? Verily, I raise …
If writing a poem seems absurd - still, why not? Perhaps it's equally strange not to write? Our encouragement to write, today, is from Nobel poet, Wislawa Szymborska of Poland I prefer to leave early. I prefer talking to doctors about something else. I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations. I prefer the absurdity of writing poems …
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I was thinking today about a very good friend who is simply in a difficult set of circumstances. She is immensely capable, resourceful, witty, hardworking and completely unself-pitying. But is in a long-running set of adverse circumstances which would put the frighteners on any optimist. In all this greyness, where is the colour? And a …
That's how this guy, Dave Herrity, describes us in this brief advert for his book, as he shows us a creative exercise from his writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSTVdDp9cA&feature=youtu.be "Making Manifest: On Faith, Creativity, and the Kingdom at Hand" is a book of devotional meditations and exercises designed for personal spiritual growth and innovative community building. Through …
