Facing the digital demons that eat your mind
After a challenging few days of contemplating the digital lint in my navel, my struggle right now is internal but not personal. My internet public persona has begun waking up after a long silence, thanks to the warming flow of words breaking the ice of silence after a particularly harsh winter. She wants to opinionate […]
La petite tristesse de le numérique
There do not seem to be the words in English to capture the sense of loss I was experiencing by the time I’d reached the point where I concluded yesterday’s post. I cannot say finished writing it because I was moved by my own recollection of the emotions I’d experienced that I needed to get […]
Reflections on Digitalization’s Impact on the Creative Process
My previous post seems to have triggered deeper reflections and responses than expected from a rapidly written rant on the loss of vocabulary. Are the gaps in my memory simply the signs of growing older, which indeed I must have done in the 16 years since I began this blog, or are the recent blank […]
Intangible losses
Loss of vocabulary; loss of words and language; loss of what seems like the formerly relied upon ability to rapidly retrieve information from the treasure trove of a voracious reader’s mind – all of these micro-losses, and more I’m sure I’ll discover – I am chalking up as the result of saturating myself in the […]
Prismatic chroma
Seen side by side like this, one can compare phases of the design process one experiences against the articulation of the need for coherence and clarity from one’s mind’s eye. As someone who has long been immersed in the complicated confusions that characterise the earliest stages of the design process – for so long as […]
Or, why I need three different pairs of spectacles and simply trifocals won’t do
As my writing out of my thinking progresses, I am coming up against the natural barrier of things I do not want to unpack on the blog. On one hand, this is a good thing because it informs me my blog is serving the function it used to serve back in the day. On the […]
On sunsets
One of the things that has always captured my attention is a particularly striking sunset. Over decades and continents and countries and cities, I have reached out to capture the magic of the colours that I can see in the sky, no matter how crude my own attempts seem to be. It didn’t matter if […]
I will walk in the sunshine and muse upon thy life and thoughts
Last night, on reaching the end of writing this post, I felt myself full of anticipation – burgeoning with words yet to be written. This morning, as I sit here staring at the blank screen, the only thoughts that come to me is how indignantly angry I’ve been in recent years. I was browsing through […]
Dusha naraspashku, in all sincerity
The way sometimes one thing leads to another and before you know it you’re down a deep dark rabbit hole of discovery is how I stumbled across the Russian phrase dusha naraspashku. Linguist Anna Wierzbicka, considered the world’s foremost expert on the links between language and culture, interprets it as “unbuttoned soul” in English, and […]
