By Deborah Fallows — 2019
Why does a community bring an artist into its life? What do the artists and their presence bring to a town and the people who live there?
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CLEAR ALL
The concept of the flow, or being in the zone for an artist, is very much like the state an athlete achieves (or strives to achieve) for peak performance. It’s that place beyond all the effort, where time is meaningless and everything just flows.
Research shows there is a ‘sweet spot’ and subjective wellbeing drops off after about five hours.
I have discovered the best ideas come to me at the most random times: in the shower, brushing my teeth, walking in the woods and in the middle of the night.