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How Do You Know That You’ve Finished Creating Something?

How do you know that a lyric, song, story, painting or book is finished? Have you said what you needed to say? How do you know? Have you hit the target number of words for your book? Have you found a colour and shape in your artwork that fills your soul? But again, how do you know? How does that manifest itself? How do the … Continue reading How Do You Know That You’ve Finished Creating Something?

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More Beautiful For Having Been Broken

I was recently reading about Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery. Other than being aesthetically pleasing and delicately minimal, what caught my eye was the underlying motivation behind it being that gold or silver lacquer is used in the repair process on the understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. Unlike the commercial Western of idea of replacing broken things … Continue reading More Beautiful For Having Been Broken

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