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Freshly Cleaned Laundry in Venice, Italy - Eric Taubert

The Exquisite Hindrance: What does it mean to be born creative?

To be born creative, is to enter life inextricably conjoined with an exquisite hindrance. We emerge into our lives governed by powerful innate urges; the insistent curiousity to experience new things; the exhausting swoon of constantly witnessing beauty in places others may not see it; an irrefusable necessity to obsessively *convey* through brush strokes, words, images, forms, or dance.

Venice, Italy - Eric Taubert

‘Always try to see life around ya as if you’d just come out of a tunnel.’

This is how it is everyday. Eyes open against pillow. I feel like I’m always waking up. I twist my neck to check the digital clock. It’s too early or too late. I’m either awake and ready for more sleep, or sluggish and slept too long.