Luke Carvill

The human brain loves patterns. There is comfort in knowing what comes next, security in it. The same route home, the same rhythm, the same film you have watched countless times because you already know it is good. There is no risk involved. But when you are trying to make something different, something special, following patterns can blind you to creative ways of seeing or solving things.

These are not instructions, but destructions. This is not a system; none of this is proven, and none of it is fixed. Be inspired and learn from others, respond to your surroundings, imitate what you are poking fun at or pulling apart. Build your own system, break it, and rebuild it again. Nothing moves in a straight line, and if it does, it is probably boring. Take the scenic route: “it’ll be grand”.

Playfulness matters. Humour matters. Don't take things too seriously. To live is to risk it all; playing it safe gets monotonous fast. New ideas come from living, from small interruptions, little breaks in the expected. It has to come from your worldview — that is what makes it compelling — otherwise it just becomes another system, another pattern.