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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Seven things that inspire me

Sandra Eterovic tagged me in this lovely cyber-parlour game – inviting people to reveal seven things about themselves.  I’ve thought of seven things that feed my soul.

Silence – no television, no radio, no telephone, just listening.  When I’m feeling stressed or tense it is often because there is too much noise.  My particular dislike is of multiple sound sources in the same space – tv / radio / talking – and when it stops I feel instantly calmer.


Clouds – for looking at and contemplating, lying on the ground and gazing upwards and just thinking.


Water – for looking at and being in and listening to.

Spaces – open spaces, enclosed spaces, hidden spaces, curious spaces; the sound of spaces and the memories held by spaces.

Old things – pre-owned, lived in, well loved, forgotten about; the patina and palimpsest of age.

(Asylum 1994 by James Casabere) 

Other People's Art – how other people distil their ideas into reality; a painting, a sculpture, an installation, a piece of music.

People – my friends, my family, my partner, my children.  People who create things/ make things/ do things/ write about things and people who have ideas. People I have known and people that I wish I had known.

Dear Reader - Please feel free to carry on the game and post your own 'seven things'.  (And let me know so I can read them!)