Sacred Studio Scores

My thoughts on consuming and being consumed by it...

Today many people are participating in a 24 hour economic blackout. Most calls ask for people to boycott major retailers, to use cash, to support small businesses. I love the solidarity of this as an act of togetherness. Moreover these are helpful guidelines to carry throughout the year whenever possible.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my dual roles as a consumer and a creator. How would I like to live my values in this moment? The challenge for me, first and foremost, is always the same. Slow down. Not to the point of disengagement, but enough so that you can hum along at a sustainable pace. You need to be able to hear your own gut instincts. I’ve been baking bread and thinking about consumption: scores vs. hauls. Hauls are that itchy feeling of hungry needing. Scores are the deep satisfaction of waiting, then pouncing when the time is right.

I have shed, for the most part, the guilt of creating printed matter. This was what haunted me when I got my risograph. “What could I possibly make that isn’t just more of a drain on our finite resources?” Not a fun thing to lay at your own feet on top of the regular creative block and the how-will-i-pay-for-this-let-alone-pay-myself blues.

Eventually the desire to make things and share them became so great that I stopped questioning “is it worth it?”. Also, in my view, I create my own carbon credits with a good score— something that someone else no longer wants that I can repurpose and rescue from the landfill.