A Seasonal Pause When the heat and the busyness of the summer months fade away, I not only want to make pots of soup, bake and hide under the blanket with a book or a knitting project but I also have this urge to look at my creative practice to see what progress I made…
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How to Evaluate Your Creative Practice in the Context of Slow and Sustainable Creativity?
Context I’ve been running my creative practice since 2004 and luckily, I’ve been able to grow and evolve creatively. However, it was not always easy to see where my creativity was taking me. For years I was just doing and didn’t want to slow down to reflect on my practice as I was too busy…
How I Learned to Build a Sustainable Creative Practice
In the Slow Creativity for Beginners, post I wrote about connecting to creativity through slow authentic engagement with activities that make us happy but don’t necessarily produce tangible outcomes in a form of a project. This is one aspect of my creative practice. The other side of what I advocate for and write about is sustainable…
Slow Creativity for Beginners : How to shift from hustle-driven creativity to a slower, more sustainable creative practise.
Context I started running my creative practise in 2004. At that time the Internet and YouTube were just beginning to capture people’s imagination. The Internet captured my imagination for sure as all of a sudden so many possibilities and opportunities were becoming available. I was hooked. Unfortunately, by 2015 I was three years into creative…
The Best Summer Day in 2026 Full of Uninterrupted Creative Expression
Summer is almost over, and I thought that trying to recall and remember the best summer day I’ve had this year would be a nice reflective way of ending the 2026 summer (even though the calendar summer is still going so are the heatwaves and droughts). My best day this summer so far must have…
Creative summer prompt: the creative power of repetition
Some estimates show that individuals can make even up to 35,000 decisions a day. Just like majority of people I feel exhausted by having to make too many decisions throughout the day. Unfortunately, the world we live in and the speed in which so much happens in short periods of time feels like we are…
My slow summer routine and what I’ve learnt
My summer routine was driven by trust in the process and my creative self (some people call it creative instinct or intuition I call that one-of-a-kind connection creative self), which resulted in a routine that calmed my overstimulated mind, body and soul after a very busy and a dare say fruitful academic year (2025-26). (My…
Creative summer prompts: Nature
The non-digital trend is growing stronger by the day, and in all honesty, I’m not surprised, and I’m all for it. I try to disconnect as much as I can, which at times is very difficult. But since calculated how much of my creative energy and precious time I devoted to being forever digitally present…
Making a small creative project without rushing
Context Centring on slower pace of living and creating has been pivotal in my disengagement from toxic productivity, while consciously choosing to re-engage with creative projects without the pressure to complete something, anything and as soon as possible. Rediscovering happiness and authentic engagement in my creative art practice – which sits at the intersection of…
Creative summer prompt: slowing down
How does slowing down show up in the ordinary moments of life? For me, slowing down means having the time to think. Going for a walk without rushing. Practising yoga, crafting, reading a book without watching the clock or sitting quietly without needing to be productive. Those moments that allow me to cultivate slow creativity…