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Maybe I'm plate spinning
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At the co-op, we arrange our client work by half-day. Basically "We're going to work on Client X on Tuesday morning and Client Y on Tuesday afternoon". We started doing this because multiple projects and multiple workers mean that alignment is helpful, and the level of context switching we were getting into was making our heads spin. Naturally it isn't a rigid policy, but the calendaring helps us all stay sane.
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At the moment, I'm enjoying the wide variety of thinky thinky work we've got on, but it also means that I spend my brainpower on that stuff and don't find much inspiration for my own random projects. But summer is here and the slow tends to come with the warm. What else is there to say, really?
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I'm keeping my brain away from The State of the World at the moment. My psyche needs a break. What about you?
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Maybe I'm a sugar addict
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Spontaneity and novelty are important aspects of life and mental health. If we don't have new experiences, if we run on repeat, our brains deteriorate at a faster rate. There's a reason being active throughout your life is important for your cognitive functioning in your later years. Activity increases the chance of novelty. If you draw the curtains and retreat, your chances of interaction with random are limited. Like any dilapidated building, your brain grows cobwebs. If the cobwebs get too thick, the light can't get in.
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All of that is why I'm so darn pleased to have had a week in which cake and art played such a significant role. I watched people sit on cakes, admittedly on YouTube, but still. My introduction this week to the British television show "Taskmaster" was a welcome unwinding. My neighbour also gave me leftover cake, and I was very pleased.
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I enjoyed watching someone throw cake at the Mona Lisa in the weirdest climate protest I've ever seen. The extremely overrated* painting from our old pal Da Vinci is a brilliant target for activism as it's guaranteed to get you loads of eyeballs. The action, however, is irritating for two reasons:
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- The message "Think about the Earth" is guileless, and that is perfectly tragic since surely the French Government will probably levy serious charges despite the fact that the Mona Lisa is encased in glass.
- The symbolism of the cake** is adorable, but what a waste of perfectly good cake.
* The Last Supper, Virgin of the Rocks and, my personal favourite, Lady with an Ermine are all far superior to the tiny, dark, foreheady Mona Lisa. I've never seen Lady with an Ermine IRL, but it's in Krakow. Perhaps I should go in the Autumn.
** The question is whether or not this symbolism was intended? Is it just my brain that made the connection between Marie Antoinette and the bourgeois and the fact that the rich are a much larger contributing factor to climate change than the rest of us?
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Maybe I need help?
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What makes an artist? Is consciousness required or do I just need to keep writing this newsletter?
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