Vision and creativity
Many years back someone told me that I should make a vision board. I was not convinced. My mental health was suffering and I considered this to be some kind of hype or maybe a quick fix. Either way I nodded agreement at the idea and it was not until a few months later when I felt a creative spark ignite within me that I pondered on it. This rare creative energy was not to be wasted and so I set to work using a large no glass, simple frame from Ikea. I found glue, a range of magazines and old newspapers and I put on some favourite tunes. I can't honestly say that my creative juices were flowing but I felt interested in where this would go and how it might look. I even got out some old photographs and noticed something - the holiday photos I like the best are those which are just very mundane, say a street, a bus stop or a simple horizon. I studied these pictures and realised that perhaps I had an eye for the everyday, that maybe at a carnival I ...