My longest creative burnout happened right after I finished editing my feature film Anna & Modern Day Slavery. I spent years working on that project and majority of those years I worked alone, trying to push myself harder and not really believing that there were limits to what I could do. What I didn’t realise…
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Can Creative Work Actually Be Sustainable?
Can creative work be sustainable not just financially, but emotionally and integrated within everyday life without causing an ongoing friction or burnout? I’ve been wrestling with this question for a while now, and I’m afraid I still haven’t found one simple answer. As for me, the answer changes depending on how my life changes. For…
What Are Your Creative Habits?
I’ve run my creative art practice since 2004. Despite my desire for perfection and all the insecurities that perfectionism drilled in me I kept going developing creative ideas into projects that wouldn’t have existed otherwise. At first when I started developing projects independently, I relied on discipline to make progress. However, over time, what I…
Perfection Kills Creativity
For years, I’ve tried to overcome perfectionism to reconnect with my creative self. CONTEXT The process to overcome perfectionism required kindness and learning how to appreciate all that I’ve managed to achieve and accomplish despite the struggles and difficulties I experienced related to my undiagnosed dyslexia and dyspraxia. People with learning differences often face many…
This Is How I Keep Going
CONTEXT While I work out the small steps, I need to take to meet my objective(s) I take into account my current life circumstances. Accommodating my life circumstances within my workflow makes it easier to reach my objective(s) as I allow myself to take time to finish what I started instead of inflicting unsustainable and…
When a Project Becomes Too Much
I didn’t realise that the reason I couldn’t finish my project was because I didn’t actually want to. In 2023, I started developing the Winter Garden project, which grew from a simple idea so much that I got lost in all the countless mediums I wanted to use to tell that story. Because I kept…
Long-Term Financial Sustainability in My Creative Art Practice
aka: how to build financial resistance in 2026 that will still allow you to create and develop projects. In 2020, I decided to change my approach to consumption, which incidentally had a very positive effect on my creative art practice. At first, my desire to reduce spending was driven by financial goals and the insecurities…
How to Resist Creatively in 2026?
I’ve been practising “creativity with less” ever since I started running my creative art practice in 2005. In my films I always use props and costumes I already have access to. If I need to re-write a scene because I don’t have a certain prop, I’m happy to do it. I can afford such flexibility…
In Search of Understanding my Creative Objectives
I spent years setting unrealistic objectives for my creative art projects and my creative art practice. These objectives often had very short deadlines to accomplish and were disconnected from my career objectives. In practice setting unrealistic objectives allowed me to avoid taking responsibility for my scattered long-term plans, which had very little connection to the…
What If I Could and Would Do It?
My first venture into directing was at the age of 8, when, together with the kids from my block, we put on a Christmas play. I was thrilled to produce the play and direct my “actors.” Unfortunately, during the premiere, one of us accidentally knocked down the Christmas tree. My mum didn’t scream at me,…