Dancing Monkeys

Dancing Monkeys

Where Does Art Come From?

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Shahid Kamal Ahmad
Feb 01, 2022
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When I'm exhausted from coding, I pick up an instrument and play. I don’t think. I've exhausted the thinking part of me already. I don't let patterns lead me, except to warm up perhaps. Then, I allow what is coming to come.

The muse has been ignored for the whole day and now I feel pressure to be the channel for a different kind of creativity to manifest.

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