Learning Our lessons

“This is a time much like others, but now a calumniation of lessons not seen nor learned.”

In this era life asks of us differently, or perhaps demands. Demanding that we slow down or even, stop. To not just look, but see profoundly, ask questions and make changes to shift the future forward, from where it seems to be headed. This is a time much like others, but now a calumniation of lessons not seen nor learned.

“This is both beyond each of us, and of each of us, as we build the future for those we have yet to meet, or will never.”

We have decisions to make, questions to answer and actions with which to move forward. This is both beyond each of us, and of each of us, as we build the future for those we have yet to meet, or will never. This involves our voting, our neighborhoods and jobs, beyond states and nations into the world and future we share: an intimate portrait as it is a panoramic view.

Untitled Painting | Carl Barnett Design/Studio

“It is a time to see, to act and create, building the future from what we already know, and what is now being built.”

It is now a time of learning our lessons. Of growing up, growing wiser and deciding who we are: the why before the what. It is a time to see, to act and create, building the future from what we know, and what is now being built. To move from stuck, to push and pull: from isolation and self learning, to action and giving. 

Artist James Turrell | Nowness

Trend Forecaster Li Edelkoort | Dezeen

Seeing Life Unfolding

“But how do you know unless you look, unless you see, nudging away noise, expectations and ego.”

To live a life of calm and to create change is to simplify down to what fulfills, what truly resonates and brings joy, living within a space that bridges body, mind, emotion and thought. But how do you know unless you look, unless you see, nudging away noise, expectations and ego. This is a matter of reduction, of what is in the moments of time passing, and lessoning the drive of social doctrine and dogma: of unbecoming, seeing and being. 

Architectural refurbishing by ZMY Design

The Essence Of Intentions And Markings Of Our Making

“It is this, the inspirational that defines our humanity, prods the will, romances desire.”

The act of doing and sincere poetic word, speak volumes to that of the human spirit: digging deep the trenches that document the forward trail. We are not simply the shell of our bodies, nor the structure of our bones, but the essence of intentions, and markings of our making. It is this, the inspirational that defines our humanity, prods the will, romances desire.

Untitled (Over/Under) | Carl Barnett Design/Studio

The Creative Mind Makes The Nail To Drive The Nail

“The creative mind is a powerful tool, as is the will to change and the innate emotion of hope.”

Whatever the future may hold, we’ve created, directly or indirectly. The creative mind is a powerful tool, as is the will to change and the innate emotion of hope. It is these three elements, the creative mind, will and hope, that will be our light, our future’s making. And it is us, our collective engagement that will create the ripple forward, which the future demands. This is simply a matter of do or do not, and of time, of changing minds in how we see ourselves in the sphere of living, nature and the future of others. 

Untitled Painting | Carl Barnett Design/Studio

“Formed in the gut, and found on the lips and fingers, it is the creative mind that makes the nail, to drive the nail: creates the bridge to build the future.” 

The subversion of government has always been the way forward, as creativity is the purest form of freedom, our clearest voice. Formed in the gut, and found on the lips and fingers, it is the creative mind that makes the nail, to drive the nail: creates the bridge to build the future. 

Exhibition At MOMA | Neri Oxman

To See Change And To Create Change

“What we think about we bring about. What we desire, we create.”

Change can happen if we let it, we know this, it’s not easy but simple, we feel it in the gut. Each day, each moment in time is an opportunity to see change, and to create change: to see beauty and create beauty. To create change is not only to see what’s before us, but what’s within, as the inner creates the outer. What we think about we bring about. What we desire, we create.