“I work in my mind. What I do is done in my mind. And what my hands do with it in writing it down is not the same as what the hands of the weaver do with the yarn, or the potter’s hands with the clay, or the cabinetmaker’s with the wood. If what I do, what I make, is beautiful, it isn’t a physical beauty. It’s imaginary, it takes place in the mind..”
Ursula Le Guin
I think we owe a debt of gratitude to the roles which mundane, unquantifiable and impractical activities play in nourishing our creative thinking. Our productivity obsessed society tends to devalue the magic that goes on in our heads if it appears to an onlooker that we are “doing nothing". Like staring at stuff through a window spatted with condensation.
I took a lot of inspiration from these windows. The obscuring of a view with a zillion droplets of water suddenly hints at a mystery just beyond our reach. It can be tempting to wipe it all away just to confirm what we see in our mind’s eye.
Super Ordinary Life is a true labour of love! I spend lots hours and my own money to keep the project going. I keep my space advert free and make no income from partnering with brands. Pretty much all the money earned from Zine making goes straight back into the project and pays for the website, hosting, research and zine making supplies.
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