The creative struggle
What is it with ideas? They are such precious things and yet it’s incredibly difficult to isolate their moment of creation. What forces fused together to reach that point where known facts become new thoughts. Where the eye, brain, hand and imagination combine to ‘defeat habit by originality’ as Arthur Koestler defined creativity. In my […]
My alternative history of important events
The history books are filled with dates and events most of which are familiar to the majority of people; from the drafting of the Magna Carta to the battle of 1066, the discovery of Penicillin and the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the resulting World Wars. These events in their own individual way have […]