V In Everything

Category: Creativity

  • The Messy Middle

    The Messy Middle

    I’ve known for a while that I have hyperfixation phases and then an interest falls off, only to be picked back up again in the future. Recently though as I’ve been looking at my garden, it’s occurred to me that not all of my interests can be put on ice like that. The garden, for…

  • The Work Is Not Done Until It’s Out in Public

    I’ve been thinking about all of my unfinished projects lately. They’ve been weighing on me for many years now. For some, I’ve been able to let go, for others they are still sitting there waiting for me to finish them. I find that this is also the case for projects that I have finished making…

  • The Nature of Creativity and Originality in Art

    I often worry that I’m not very creative. I don’t really come up with out of the box ideas or with anything genuinely novel. I do like making things that are artistic though, which colloquially falls under the “creative person” umbrella. But I don’t think I really do anything new or unique. The thing that…