There's this banality of chores that seems like a personal affront to the creative impulse, that on the other hand is required to recognize your mere humanness and where it stands in the cosmic order of things. It's why less moneyed artists both resent rich artists that have assistants and domestic services cover the banal stuff for them, and would immediately start paying for those services once they got the money themselves.
This is something of what my early STSC vid was about:
https://polarisdib.substack.com/p/symposium-3-procrastination
There's this banality of chores that seems like a personal affront to the creative impulse, that on the other hand is required to recognize your mere humanness and where it stands in the cosmic order of things. It's why less moneyed artists both resent rich artists that have assistants and domestic services cover the banal stuff for them, and would immediately start paying for those services once they got the money themselves.
Guess what I am humming right now? 😂 I loved how you mentioned giving your kids that time and space to create.
This was pretty delightful
Parallel lives friend! We need to see up another Zoom.