Once again my Sunday is nourished through my now secret addiction to reading my substack favourites! Belinda, your work unearths curiosities and questions from the depths once again!
I find it interesting, as a musing, to ponder on whether the coping mechanism for being so externally restricted was indeed a rich internal life.... as a modern woman, living in a modern world, and as a highly creative and imaginative child (when restrictions are also at their greatest, for me anyway), I've noticed the more freedom and less restrictions I have the more distracted and perhaps even externally lived my world is... my point being, I am far less creative now than when I was a kid. I've been working on rekindling and reigniting that recently, so this article has raised some questions....
Some of our greatest female writes, artwork and contributions to society, to me, seem to have been born from these imposed restrictions.... the less restricted we are, I'd love to know how that ultimately affects our creativity? Because if we are not being forced inward, then perhaps that internal landscape is suffering as a result??
I am not saying we should be restricted again, but wonder if there is a special ingredient which came from our oppression, which we need to cultivate for ourselves still in a self regulated way, so we continue to reap those rewards...
Recent worldwide restrictions saw us all tapping into old hobbies and reignite our creativity... arts and crafts sales went through the roof... people took up creative projects more than in the years previous...
Perhaps its from a certain amount of restriction, self or other imposed, that we thrive creatively.... so if there's something to be taken from this it's that perhaps we received something we could never have otherwise seen (for good bad or other)....
I love how you have drawn attention to the many subversive ways women created, influenced and challenged in the presence of such societal restrictions.
Hi Belinda, this is wonderful! You express so well much of what I think snd believe. Always learning from you! And looking forward to the online lecture, should be very interesting... but do please remind us nearer the time, my menopausal brain struggles to hold onto names and dates these days! 🤣
Thanks so much Ali :) And I'll be sure to share the link to the online lecture when I have it (although I still have to write said talk! Talk about last minute, but I'm looking forward to the opportunity to share it and see what others think).
Once again my Sunday is nourished through my now secret addiction to reading my substack favourites! Belinda, your work unearths curiosities and questions from the depths once again!
I find it interesting, as a musing, to ponder on whether the coping mechanism for being so externally restricted was indeed a rich internal life.... as a modern woman, living in a modern world, and as a highly creative and imaginative child (when restrictions are also at their greatest, for me anyway), I've noticed the more freedom and less restrictions I have the more distracted and perhaps even externally lived my world is... my point being, I am far less creative now than when I was a kid. I've been working on rekindling and reigniting that recently, so this article has raised some questions....
Some of our greatest female writes, artwork and contributions to society, to me, seem to have been born from these imposed restrictions.... the less restricted we are, I'd love to know how that ultimately affects our creativity? Because if we are not being forced inward, then perhaps that internal landscape is suffering as a result??
I am not saying we should be restricted again, but wonder if there is a special ingredient which came from our oppression, which we need to cultivate for ourselves still in a self regulated way, so we continue to reap those rewards...
Recent worldwide restrictions saw us all tapping into old hobbies and reignite our creativity... arts and crafts sales went through the roof... people took up creative projects more than in the years previous...
Perhaps its from a certain amount of restriction, self or other imposed, that we thrive creatively.... so if there's something to be taken from this it's that perhaps we received something we could never have otherwise seen (for good bad or other)....
Just a playful musing....
I love how you have drawn attention to the many subversive ways women created, influenced and challenged in the presence of such societal restrictions.
Hi Belinda, this is wonderful! You express so well much of what I think snd believe. Always learning from you! And looking forward to the online lecture, should be very interesting... but do please remind us nearer the time, my menopausal brain struggles to hold onto names and dates these days! 🤣
Thanks so much Ali :) And I'll be sure to share the link to the online lecture when I have it (although I still have to write said talk! Talk about last minute, but I'm looking forward to the opportunity to share it and see what others think).