We can easily let our minds get carried away. We confabulate and fill in the blanks with completely fabricated information. When we are uncertain we become desperate for certainty, entertaining absurd notions in an attempt to make sense of the chaos. Creative minds can often get anxious. Sometimes it’s comforting to focus solely on theContinue reading “Focus On What You Know”
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Distractions
Y’all having a hard time focusing these days? What with the pandemic and whatnot? I get that we don’t have to be working on a masterpiece while in self-isolation, but I keep thinking this must be the perfect time to pay attention to back burner projects. There are ideas that have been circulating in myContinue reading “Distractions”
How Performance Can Break Stereotype (Maybe)
In the last post, “Rising Tide of Change”, I suggested there’s a cultural shift happening in Atlantic Canada. Xavier Gould is a big part of that: they’re confronting the structures that inhibit Acadian and gender identity expression, and their creations actually enact a more inclusive reality. The unapologetic presentation of a more utopian world isContinue reading “How Performance Can Break Stereotype (Maybe)”