The Haar

Good Morning from my Earth Ship,

A wise person once said to me that in a creative life there will constantly be peaks and troughs. I'm pretty sure this is true for life, creative or otherwise. I'm currently experiening a low. It's a low kind of low, where not much seems to make sense. It is familiar territory that I've walked through before, and I know it will pass but it is a challenge to sit with. I can only describe it as a fog, or as the Scottish say, the haar. A temporary white out that feels chlostrophobic and blinding. This kind of feeling comes from a variety of sources, in my case it's most often experienced after an intense outporing of productive creativity. In other words I'm emotionally and physically spent.

Actions to ride through the Haar:

1. Non action - general stillness - listening - breathing - walking

2. Housekeeping (the creative kind.. blogging, purging of excess drawings and organising of studio space)

3. Consolidating materials & buying new ones  

4. Drawing. Anything. 

5. Sharing and reaching out. Even by writing this post there is a thinning out of the fog. 

Thanks for listening.