CRAZY Art, page-346

It's lunch time and time for some idling on a slightly warmer day though dismal, brooding and grey.

I process things much better in writing which is really visual and I can't help myself - it just runs into a movie in my head - without having any control over it. that's why i can end up on long rambles and go from thinking about an MG to almost all the events around it. the movie just gets a rerun. when i was talking to my friend about her experience of surgery in a moscow hospital (now there's a tragedy) when she was about 12 or 13 and the letters she wrote it was uncanny. I could see the whole experience of reading the letters, my emotions and the experience I had then of both her loneliness and despair and the pain she was experiencing. just like that - fresh and as painful the other day as it was at the time.

that processing style leads to an intuitive approach to problems and thinking in general but i have been trained by scientist parents to overlay logic and rational thought. So I switch between the two. it also means i have to be very careful of whether i am pre or post rationalising something. my job probably forced me to do that because you couldn't get away without have reason and data.

but the job also meant that my creative side was on ice for far too long. I left it to problem solving and design. Boy am i glad to pull it out again.

so if you use both sides of your brain then its a matter of practice.

which takes us to zip's post
think one of the reasons people shy away from creating stuff is that they worry about what others will say/think.It is a valid reason for many and I’m not suggesting it is a bad thing but just a thing.One needs a leap of faith, a desire, a two fingers salute to the knockers an understanding that it’s just a bit of fun.

that is all it is. my first ever paper garment was an embarrassment to me and i allowed it to be shown only because i was begged. it last hardly any time and was shredded. but it set me on a path!!!! i just didn't allow what was my own feeling and not necessarily that of others to stop me.

it stops one getting set in one's own way and has opened up other parts of life and different friendships for me