Wabi-Sabi: The beauty of broken and unfinished things
/Wabi-sabi is a concept that lies at the heart of Japanese culture—an idea that places great value on incompleteness and imperfection.
Read MoreRabbit Hole is about recovering creativity. Read essays, interviews, reviews on the art of writing, illustrating, film and more.
Wabi-sabi is a concept that lies at the heart of Japanese culture—an idea that places great value on incompleteness and imperfection.
Read MorePlay is essential to creativity. This issue is about remembering how to do it.
Read MoreGot a project you’ve always been meaning to start but felt it was all too hard? This issue is for you.
Read MoreAll about having time to play, and making stuff for yourself first before showing others.
Read MorePart one of double issue that looks at the amazing work of French-American artist and sculptor, Louise Bourgeois.
Read MoreReading Charles Bukowski’s work confirms my sneaking suspicion that art is not as hard as I make it.
Read MoreAfter twenty-four issues, I thought I should figure out exactly why I’m doing this.
Read MoreWhy does your life suck sometimes? This Rabbit Hole looks to my Dad and one of the most pessimistic people in Western philosophy for answers.
Read MoreWhy is David Lynch so creative? As far as I can tell, it all has something to do with catching fish and not listening to clowns.
Read MoreWhy I decided to give into my neuroses and give up writing to-do lists.
Read MoreFor some of us Lego is more than a set of blocks—it’s a creative block-busting manifesto.
Read MoreThough people may pride themselves on being a perfectionist in job interviews and at work, the reality of being a perfectionist blows.
Read MoreRecently, I was looking for something about reading to kids, and I happened across an educational theorist from New Zealand with some really great ideas about teaching and learning, which made a few things fall into place about being a parent too.
Lia McKnight is a Perth-based artist who seamlessly moves between drawing, textiles, installation and sculpture. McKnight’s beautifully strange, yet eerily familiar works confuse the boundaries between the ‘natural’ and the ‘personal’—an idea that she and eleven other artists explore in a new group show at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
Mum’s recurring complaint is that dad never finishes anything. There’s a half-built brick barbecue at the end of the garden that in twenty years has never seen a hotplate, let alone a sausage or steak. It was the same too with the model train layout he built for me as a kid, which never sported truck nor track. But I didn’t realise till now that not finishing things could be a good thing, a helpful trick to keep your creativity on track.
More difficult than knowing where to begin is knowing when to stop. Pieces of writing we’re working on. Bad relationships. Eating. But when it comes to finding the best ending for a creative work, the perfect solution might be right under our noses.
Can’t afford an expensive holiday overseas? Take some advice from an eighteen century writer, soldier and artist under house arrest and go on a magical sight-seeing tour of your very own home.
To be an artist, constantly risking your self-esteem by putting things out there in the world, requires a certain level of masochism. But how can that masochism be harnessed for good?
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a series of cards to help artists break through their creative blocks and take risks in their work.
We can only hope that the resurgence of the extreme right in America inspires an equally strong counterculture. In the era of Trump, only punk can save us now.
Author H.G. Wells had some great advice for writers, which is equally good advice for teachers too.
Make Your Own Rabbit Hole is about recovering creativity. Read essays, interviews, reviews and much more on writing, art, film and all things creative.
Painter Tracey Read talks about spending four weeks painting and drawing her way around Italy.