“f I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
Gaston Bachelard
Today Yannick did a video shoot in the living room of my apartment where I do my ten drawings a day project and currently there is an IKEA trestle table in the middle of my room with many journals, sketch books filled with drawings and three neon’s with the text, kindness, lateral thinking and altruism.
“Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud”
Maya Angelou
I love this quote about the contagiousness of kindness.
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way”
Edward de Bono
I love this quote by De Bono about how lateral thinking works.
“For many years, I tried to make New Year’s resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes. “
Henry Rollins
I love this quote by Rollins about altruism and I saw him give a spoken word gig in Sydney about thirty years ago and he was an incredible orator and held a strong presence on the stage. I also love how he is straight edge meaning he doesn’t smoke or drink or do drugs so he is an awesome role model.
In conclusion these three quotes are in this brief essay to expand on the ideas behind the neon’s on the trestle table in this video shoot by Yannick Soyez. Also, thanks to Mark Law who will help me edit the video with sound. In the video it also pans, around my desk with two computer monitors and my big photos on my wall and the three-colour neon’s as an installation on the wall next to my desk.
