The Promise of Boredom

And do we have time for it?

Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one’s personality.
- Sheila Heti, Motherhood

I like this idea, I read in a Maggie Nelson essay that making art is the act of trying to ‘become a stranger to oneself’ (paraphrasing Adam Phillips). It’s moving outside the hard limits of your experience, through the medium of your experience, in order to see t…