Sometimes a creative person needs some space for something new to move in and take up residence. But what if there’s just too much old stuff hanging around to make room for the new?
That’s all meant metaphorically, of course, but what better way to explore the notion of making space than to take the metaphor literally. What that what’s I want you to do.
Part 1 (20 minutes):
Start by sitting quietly for five minutes in your favorite room in your house. Clear your head, concentrate on your breathing, be present. When you are settled, then you can start:
-Identify your most unloved possession. It can be something that you actively dislike, or something that you just don’t feel connected to. If it’s not in the room you are in, go get it (if it’s movable), or go to where it is.
-Look carefully at it for five minutes; ift it if you can, walk around it if it’s not movable, study it, consider it.
-Draw or photograph it (preferably right where it is in your environment, but you can move it if you prefer)
Part 2 (15 minutes)
Now get a piece of writing paper and a writing tool. Spend no more than 15 minutes answering the following questions:
-How did you acquire it?
-Did you ever love it?
-How did it disappoint you?
-If you do not love it, why do you still have it?
-What would you do with it, if you relinquished it?
-What, if anything, would you replace it with?
