creativitysThis was published in Hot Press in November 2009. David Norris was kind enough to quote from it on RTÉ’s The View recently.
There is a paradox about the creative process that I’m wrestling with now. Well, now more than ever. Mid-life, adolescence, it’s all the same really. What am I here for/What’s the point? You [...]
A couple of things have caught my eye recently that have one thing in common – they are ridiculously cheap or free, brimful of creativity and enthusiasm, and staged by volunteers.
This weekend you can put the finishing touches to your piece of art, ready to submit on Monday to the collective show of peacock philanthropy [...]
The next village is a lovely idea – a line from Kafka, and people are asked to respond to it in various ways. Keith Ridgway asked me to get involved and I thought that doing something with audio would be good. Then I realised that there was something I had already done in Italy on [...]
Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. One of his great works, the notebook called the Codex Leicester, is on display in Dublin at the moment. I went along to re-acquaint myself with a man I haven’t really considered since school, and I found myself in [...]
A Fine Gael TD, Simon Coveney, recently called for “aggressive, tough” legislation to target people who use prostitutes in Ireland. He wanted to target the “acceptability” of buying sex. Sometimes, that party really scares me.
I am not convinced of the efficacy of using the law to change social mores. Certainly, the law has a big [...]
I’ve just got a renewal notice for the domain cumcooking.com, and I wonder whether I should renew it or not. It’s coming up to 2 years since I booked it, for a play I wrote called “Pig Play”. It’s been doing the rounds of various theatres in the past 18 months or so, and although [...]
One of the best tools at my disposal is something I learned from The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron. It is a book that, perhaps, has an unfortunate name, in that it can put people off, suggesting it’s only for pretentious wankers who aspire to be artistes and are looking for the “way” or [...]
Just finished reading Animals by Keith Ridgway and I’m very impressed, and saddened, too. It’s about losing the plot, when context is abandoned or ignored or disappears of its own accord, when the fabric that binds us to sanity, or at least to something that approximates it, unravels. The horror of it. The nuisance of [...]
“I’d hoped for a bit of a head start. Too late! I’m going to have to get my finger out and do something about this which means moving things a bit faster. I don’t have to implement the full scale plan, but I do need to do something.”
So says mj, and I feel for [...]
It’s a good but weird space I’m in at the moment. Who’d have guessed that I’d be in the grip of a creative frenzy – over a business? I think it’s probably a feature of creativity itself, if you let it go where it needs to go, and not force it. Have put all my [...]
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