aei designs

“We grow remote from others, categorizing and stereotyping the people we meet, threatened and afraid, unable to see them clearly and fully. We speed through life, wanting to get on to the next thing, unable to take pleasure in the moment. We chart life on a checklist, ticking off experiences as if they were chores, overly committed to our views and unable to deal with unexpected. We seem distracted and spaced out, unable to hear what our family members say to us, always preoccupied with some other place and time.

Ironically, our society tends to portray artists as dreamers. But those who suppress their creativity are actually the ones living in a dream. An artist is someone who sees and feels reality very intensely. Creativity doesn’t mean just making things up out of thin air. It means seeing and feeling the world so vividly that you can put together connections and patterns that help you to explain reality. It means you see the beauty in the world rather than trying to hide from it.”