Creativity as an Act of Defiance
We are making birds, not bird cages.
5 min readMay 11, 2019
One of the most difficult things in life is to declare yourself as . . . yourself.
Among the first questions people ask when they meet each other is, “What do you do for a living?” or “Where are you from?” Humans have a deep-seated need to swiftly put people into a neat category and place them safely in a box. To be from…