I like the one you went with- PINK! Just listened to yr interview on Femme Futurists Society, it was great. I am in sync with your thinking, as a scenic artist-painter-illustrator turned occupational therapist turned project manager about to study strategic communications. My most fav ideas are about embodied/multi-sensory learning & collaboration and how art-making can facilitate this (or rather, mark-making, sound-making, movement -making). The times I feel most at-home in my work and lit-up are when I am inviting adults (including CEO’s, MDs, teachers, elders, children) that making things together is a way of connecting, thinking, solving problems (not just talking and being talked at! So much talking. So much sitting! We know this isn’t how humans learn.) Super excited to have found your work. Happy to be here!
Yes, pink pops. :) Thank you for listening to that interview - I never know what I'm going to say or share so I'm glad some of it resonated with you. What with all your talents and interests, you sound like either a 4 or a 7 on the Enneagram. I'm a 4, intense creative, and most of my colleagues are 7s. But my partner is whatever is exactly the opposite. :) Glad you're here.
I'm a creative who camouflages herself in the name of practicality. As the great Martha Beck would say, I am always working on my "cultural cover story," that is, how to "pass" as a normal working person when all my true passions are not about $$$ (footnote- just bought the game "Renunciation," which had been on my wishlist for 6 months or so and then I saw you mention it and decided, dammit, I'm doing it.) Let's be real- nobody's true passions are about $$$; there's very little variation at at the heart of all this. To be accepted, to be loved, to be safe. Anyway, I haven't done the Enneagram because I'm afraid whatever number I come out with will be a disappointment to me. Which is the number for not wanting a number?
The number for not wanting a number is plausibly 4. This is also my number and I have historically loathed being labeled or categorized, sequestered or pigeon-holed. Nevertheless, when I took the Enneagram, I was unpleasantly surprised that it did a good job of somewhat encircling my personhood. Ha ha! That said, I can surprise it, too. :)
I have not heard of this concept of a cultural cover story but it resonates. I, too, am deeply creative but have often been pragmatic in the extreme. That has changed over time as I lean into not-knowing but I can appreciate our many facets for surviving and I lovingly work with my practical parts if they get too fearful and take over. It sounds cliché but it truly is a journey. I'm sure you are well on your way.
Was it one of the two middle covers in the middle row? I am looking forward to seeing the book!
Top row, second from the left! But there were a few contenders. We went with the "two-second rule" of book shelves in bookstores.
I like the one you went with- PINK! Just listened to yr interview on Femme Futurists Society, it was great. I am in sync with your thinking, as a scenic artist-painter-illustrator turned occupational therapist turned project manager about to study strategic communications. My most fav ideas are about embodied/multi-sensory learning & collaboration and how art-making can facilitate this (or rather, mark-making, sound-making, movement -making). The times I feel most at-home in my work and lit-up are when I am inviting adults (including CEO’s, MDs, teachers, elders, children) that making things together is a way of connecting, thinking, solving problems (not just talking and being talked at! So much talking. So much sitting! We know this isn’t how humans learn.) Super excited to have found your work. Happy to be here!
Yes, pink pops. :) Thank you for listening to that interview - I never know what I'm going to say or share so I'm glad some of it resonated with you. What with all your talents and interests, you sound like either a 4 or a 7 on the Enneagram. I'm a 4, intense creative, and most of my colleagues are 7s. But my partner is whatever is exactly the opposite. :) Glad you're here.
I'm a creative who camouflages herself in the name of practicality. As the great Martha Beck would say, I am always working on my "cultural cover story," that is, how to "pass" as a normal working person when all my true passions are not about $$$ (footnote- just bought the game "Renunciation," which had been on my wishlist for 6 months or so and then I saw you mention it and decided, dammit, I'm doing it.) Let's be real- nobody's true passions are about $$$; there's very little variation at at the heart of all this. To be accepted, to be loved, to be safe. Anyway, I haven't done the Enneagram because I'm afraid whatever number I come out with will be a disappointment to me. Which is the number for not wanting a number?
The number for not wanting a number is plausibly 4. This is also my number and I have historically loathed being labeled or categorized, sequestered or pigeon-holed. Nevertheless, when I took the Enneagram, I was unpleasantly surprised that it did a good job of somewhat encircling my personhood. Ha ha! That said, I can surprise it, too. :)
I have not heard of this concept of a cultural cover story but it resonates. I, too, am deeply creative but have often been pragmatic in the extreme. That has changed over time as I lean into not-knowing but I can appreciate our many facets for surviving and I lovingly work with my practical parts if they get too fearful and take over. It sounds cliché but it truly is a journey. I'm sure you are well on your way.