Play

Some of my most creative, artistic and profound moments happen when I’m playful.

Colors become more vivid and sounds become more musical when we play. It is something I derive meaning from, but I think it is important outside of my own experience—for others as well.

From the beginning, in our first existent moments, we played to understand the world. We mimicked, we talked to ourselves, we pretended things that weren’t real. We molded things to our understanding and it could be more magical. I think this practice is just as important now, I believe it is. With creativity, it demands a playfulness, it demands that we let go of control so that we can get lost, and ultimately— be found again.

“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:
how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life to
live without play and fairy tales! We give these things other names, to be
sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence
that they are the same things - for the child too regards play as his work
and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a
pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought
something new - and a poet ought for once to present a man of two
hundred: one, that is, who really does live without play and fairy tales.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits