Via Negativa and Negative Capability

Sometimes knowing what you don’t want can be more clarifying than trying to figure out what you do want.

I’m still a bit at sea at the moment. Trying to rest and recover from burnout and figure out what next. I dedicated eight years of my life to researching, writing and drawing my graphic novel Eventually Everything Connects. Followed by two more years of touring and promoting it.

It has been a focused undertaking of elephantine proportions. Full of joys and highs, disappointments, embarrassments and lots of learning. It was the biggest and hardest project I have done so far. I have changed and grown so much over this time. And I gave it my all. I need to keep reminding myself that this current lull, this murky ditch, this weird wobbly liminal space is inevitable and possibly, necessary?

I’ve been here before in smaller ways at the end of intense periods of client and personal creative work, the ending of chapters in my life. I’ve taken breaks/sabbaticals in the past to take stock, prune, recover parts of myself, explore, experiment and reshape who I am and what I do.