I've spent a lot of the weekend rearranging things...
When I paused to look at what was stacked on my table I had to shake my head...pigment making supplies and pigments, dye supplies, the baby indigo vat, sewing projects, paper projects, books, drawing supplies, a water color set, yarn, gifts from friends, the occasional cat and an iron that I rarely use.
So many things that I am interested in.
So many things that I am or want to be.
And a kind of chaos.
Looking closer,
There was also lunch:
Toppings: pears, smoked cheese, walnuts and radicchio.
And dye experiments.
The fabric on the left and middle were dyed in the baby vat, two dips for the cotton and one dip for the wool. The wool on the right was dyed in the ice water dye bath.
And that brings me to my reading...
One of the concepts that I find so validating in Ways of Being is the idea that it isn't about either/or. On a personal, small level for me, there is comfort in all the examples that Bridle gives. When I look at my table there is very little either/or. There are possibilities. Why identify as one kind of maker?
And then there is a discussion on the importance of randomness. I am thinking about how that relates to creativity, how we define creativity.
More thinking...in this week's newsletter Krista Tippet links to a podcast by Kevin Kelly. The discussion is about technology, what it is and how it is shaping our world. It's a great conversation, I especially like this:
So we have this world where, basically, answers have become cheap and ubiquitous and pervasive, and they’re everywhere, and so what’s much scarcer are good questions. And good questions are kind of like a discovery. They’re kind of like a way of exploring “what if?”
What if... :)