on creativity

We don’t have a “creative side”, we are all creative beings. How often you tune into creativity, nurture it, observe it, and give it space to roam is usually up to you.

We met this sweet grandma at an art class over the weekend who couldn’t get over a sketch Ry drew of P. She called over her entire family to come see it, she called over the facilitator to come see it. With every curious gaze and gleeful praise from a stranger, I watched Ry turn another shade of cranberry under his mask. But I watched him sit a little taller, too. The lady was almost comically shocked to hear what he actually did for a living.

All this to say, don’t allow yourself to be put in a box or fall under a label of “creative” or “not creative” — creativity comes in all kinds of forms (cooking, singing in the shower, even the way you speak). It’s our true nature.

Keeping it creative (and brief) today,

ty

life imitates art. ry unwittingly partaking in an optical illusion at boston’s institute of contemporary art