Sister Corita Kent: The Teacher I Want to Be
I’ve just started reading Sister Corita Kent’s book on creativity and art-making, Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit. Do you know who she was? A pioneering artist and radical nun whose work, especially in the sixties and seventies, blended pop art and social activism. I grew up around her work, but over […]
20,000 Leagues Under The Piano
“At that moment I heard the vague chords of the organ, a sad harmony under an indefinable melody, veritable wails of a soul that wished to break all terrestrial ties. I listened with all my senses, hardly breathing, plunged, like Captain Nemo, in one of those musical ecstasies which took him beyond the limits of […]
Technology and the ecosystem of creativity
CC: Ian Sane via Compfight This was originally the final paragraph of my essay for Bettery Magazine last month, and I’d thought I’d share it here and see what you all thought. “I was thinking about the ecosystem of creativity the other day, that it’s like compost and water and sun. The compost of a […]