I must confess that for a long time, I struggled with creative blocks. Back when I first lived abroad in Paris at the age of twenty-one, I had the chance to look at myself from a distance. Freed from the usual role I had become so accustomed to playing in my family since childhood, I realized that my heart wanted to take a different path than the one that had been laid out in front of me. My creativity started to slowly, slowly seep out of me. I won't say it was easy, nor that it was a straight path that led me to finally allow myself to express everything within me, without any filters, but the immense fatigue was worth it.
I hope you and Dostoyevsky are right! As a species, we appear to be walking away from beauty at the moment, relying instead on efficiency, safety, and comfort. But if anything can save us, it's the reconnection with beauty and the sacred, of course.
I think there is still hope! More and more people are waking up, leaving the daily grind, or at least taking some time to look around and find beauty in the world.
Additionally, there are increasingly more groups who create and exchange or sell handmade goods. I believe we will witness the renaissance of arts and crafts, and hopefully, real art as well.
All we can do is invest energy in finding those people, appreciate their work, and choose those items instead of the factory-made, disposable stuff.
I hope you and Dostoyevsky are right! As a species, we appear to be walking away from beauty at the moment, relying instead on efficiency, safety, and comfort. But if anything can save us, it's the reconnection with beauty and the sacred, of course.
I think there is still hope! More and more people are waking up, leaving the daily grind, or at least taking some time to look around and find beauty in the world.
Additionally, there are increasingly more groups who create and exchange or sell handmade goods. I believe we will witness the renaissance of arts and crafts, and hopefully, real art as well.
All we can do is invest energy in finding those people, appreciate their work, and choose those items instead of the factory-made, disposable stuff.
Yes, that's what I try to do.