BaroqueLab

“In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:

“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut

Sculpting with Light - Photography Workshop Next Sunday 18th February, Woolloongabba Studio
Sculpting with Light is a photography workshop that teaches you how to make long exposures in semi darkness. You can be an experienced photographer or never held a camera. You will easily understand and be able to practice this delightfully simple process that will expand the way you think about the potential of photography as an art making process. Guided by the highly experienced artist and teacher, Marian Drew, you will wonder why you haven’t learned this before as there are so many applications for this creative technique!

One beautiful sculpture made by a BaroqueLab participant during the Baroque Ikebana workshop! 📸

Now you can buy a BaroqueLab gift voucher for someone you love! The perfect Christmas gift, team building exercise, or way to up skill and increase your creativity! 🥂🎁

Some of the gorgeous portraits created and photographed by our Imaginarium participants.

Find out more about The BaroqueLab and our workshops at: https://baroquelab.com.au/

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