I must feel to make, for creating art of any significance flows from an open heart.
To build with sound, words or light I easily fall in love: with people, with place and nature, with the compassionate actions of others. It has always been the same for me.
The peril of an open heart is that sadness as much as beauty and joy are constant companions.
Power: the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events.
Politics: the use of power by one person to affect the behaviour of another.
I view the arts as fundamental to the good health of human society. Art, even when its affect is limited to the field of our pleasure, is a political act: art transforms us, if only for a moment. I ponder on the strength of art's greatest potential to be the seed of positive change.
I ponder on my next. Without my next I am only what has been. I want to be what might become.
I return from a road trip that began in the gentle and rolling South Downs of England and took me to the extraordinary beauty of the Lake District, then on to the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and York.
As with all journeys, life is never quite the same on my return as the experience of unaccustomed landscape leaves its mark. Time passes. Soon, my return is long ago. What might, becomes.
William Shakespeare
A place where one fresh thought is presented every day.
Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.