Art is just so complicated these days… It is intimidating even for the most educated of us to attend an art gallery and not be surprised by the cost of what can look like a child’s doodle. We are on one page: we want to understand and appreciate a painting without having to read aRead more about How to value a painting… for beginners[…]
Back at the beginning of this year, I bought the “Steal like an artist journal.” And I have been filling it in every now and then. This is like my creativity gym. Beside the stuff I do at work that requires a lot of thinking and reading, and coming up with interesting ways of addressing certainRead more about Creativity gym[…]
I was helping a friend with her personal statement for med school when I came across a very interesting word document in my old grad school application folders. It was interesting because I could not remember writing something with this title back in 2008 – what art-ful meditation does to a scientist! Although I amRead more about What art-ful meditation does to a scientist![…]
There are many contradictory quotes and common understandings about creativity, efficiency, cleanliness and mess. If you abide by some and not the others, it would seem that you can’t be both efficient and messy, or creative and clean. I think that is utter nonsense. Life is of course about balance. And although we do seeRead more about About efficiency and creativity[…]