Summer is Icumen In
Time & Recharging Creativity

Summer is upon us, bringing with it the much-anticipated opportunity to recharge. For the past half-year, many of us have been overworked, undernourished, overstimulated, and living and working outside the natural hours of daylight. Clearly, we have some serious recharging to do.

SPRING is a time to move forward, step into the year and start afresh. For me it is generally a time of planning and renewal!

If 'newness' is the goal in my work, then what does that look like compared to this time last year, where can it be seen and what is its messaging?

Winter Blog No 3

For thousands of years we have lived by the cycles of the seasons, dined on their produce, practiced their traditions, celebrated the festivals and listened to the myths and folklore that are coded into our DNA like muscle memory.

I was once content with producing a quality product that demonstrated my particular skills while endeavouring to respond to the ever changing ebb & flow of the British cultural and tribal narrative. 

I called this 'fashion'.

The past few years have caused me to reconsider that 30 year contribution. Today my field, like many others, feels superfluous to today's needs! Struggling to reflect the landscape in which it performs.

What has ‘fashion’ become?

So, I began to build a timeline, mapping 300,000 years of British history (as you do). This led me to the practices of long term thinking and the value of marking time by mapping the unfolding annual cycle of the turning seasons on the 'wheel of the year,' highlighting calendar-based customs, folklore festivity, ancient and new, that connect us all to the land and offer insight into our life's journey.