This is fascinating Jo. Loved seeing your picture responses and hearing the sounds. This is so creative and freeing as a medium and interview technique and I imagine also frees up the ego more than in written or spoken responses?
Thank you Catriona, I really appreciate that :-) You've summed it up well, it felt creative and freeing. I think it also highlighted that writing is a really valuable medium of communication, yet it's not the sole means. Particularly when it comes to accessibility.
What drew me to Kathryn's approach was the openness to expressing feelings/emotions/thoughts/creativity through broader media. Some days I feel like I can't write a thing, yet I want to express something in some way. Pictures and sounds provide a way of doing that. Photography and music feel like they manoeuvre on their own, in many ways. I don't know how involved the ego is in that, but it feels more detached, which seems to make space for other ideas to bubble up to the surface. I'm mostly spitballing here, I have no idea how it actually works. But I feel that words are not the only way....
I relate to this ... to the way in which pictures and sounds seem to bring some of the subconscious to light in a way that words do not. I often write to understand things and forming words around experiences helps me but my world has opened up considerably since I've come to equally respect the role of not-words expression in my life.
SO BEAUTIFUL. Your wordless expressions invite me in with curious joy. Your music tickles my neurons while I soak in the curious wonder of nature's expressions. I collaborate with your offers, creating my own story in the flow. 🙏🏼 Thank you
Thanks so much, Kathryn, for this opportunity to share in an alternative interview format. Not everything can be expressed in words.
This is fascinating Jo. Loved seeing your picture responses and hearing the sounds. This is so creative and freeing as a medium and interview technique and I imagine also frees up the ego more than in written or spoken responses?
Thank you Catriona, I really appreciate that :-) You've summed it up well, it felt creative and freeing. I think it also highlighted that writing is a really valuable medium of communication, yet it's not the sole means. Particularly when it comes to accessibility.
What drew me to Kathryn's approach was the openness to expressing feelings/emotions/thoughts/creativity through broader media. Some days I feel like I can't write a thing, yet I want to express something in some way. Pictures and sounds provide a way of doing that. Photography and music feel like they manoeuvre on their own, in many ways. I don't know how involved the ego is in that, but it feels more detached, which seems to make space for other ideas to bubble up to the surface. I'm mostly spitballing here, I have no idea how it actually works. But I feel that words are not the only way....
I relate to this ... to the way in which pictures and sounds seem to bring some of the subconscious to light in a way that words do not. I often write to understand things and forming words around experiences helps me but my world has opened up considerably since I've come to equally respect the role of not-words expression in my life.
SO BEAUTIFUL. Your wordless expressions invite me in with curious joy. Your music tickles my neurons while I soak in the curious wonder of nature's expressions. I collaborate with your offers, creating my own story in the flow. 🙏🏼 Thank you
Thank you Christine, I'm really happy to hear this :-)