We often imagine drawing as something directed by the eye, as if sight alone guides the pencil across the page, but a drawing begins before the first mark is made: the faint smell of sharpened wood, the subtle weight of the pencil settling between the fingers, the surface texture of a new piece of paper beneath the hand. These tiny sensations suggest that drawing is not only a visual action but also a tactile and auditory one. Drawing is a form of contact. When the pencil mov

We trust the geometry of the world far more than we realise. When we walk through a doorway or look down a street, we assume that space behaves in a stable, predictable way. Parallel lines stay parallel. Corners meet logically. Objects occupy volumes we can move around and understand. Reliable geometry is the framework that makes daily life navigable. Some shapes seem perfectly reasonable at first glance; coherent, solid, even elegantly constructed, yet collapse under the sli

The stillness that once filled daily life has been replaced by movement and distraction. We fill every gap in our attention with something, anything, to keep ourselves occupied. Yet in losing that space, we may also have lost something essential, one of the key conditions on which creativity depends. Stillness is often the entry point to deeper perception. It is the foundation stone before a new thought forms, the brief moment of emptiness before our imagination is set free.