De-Activated and Happy
Summer Creativity and Workshops
Dear Friends
It’s been a couple of months since my last email! Hope you are all well and enjoying your summer. We are having a particularly glorious one here in the UK.
After many experiments and research into the world of Social Media on 29th May I decided to deactivate my Instagram, Facebook and TikTok account (de-activating is quite close to deleting, you disappear from the platform but your data is there if you need to retrieve it one day)
I made this decision, after a series of incidents of my own making. I discovered the “virality formula” and had a number of posts get thousands of views, with the top one reaching 250k views. With this came increasing numbers of trolls and the comments became darker and crueler. Eventually it became very painful to even open the app, and I got a chill in my spine when I received a DM saying “I live in your town, if you go out at night I will get you”
The reason I originally signed up to social media, was to connect with my friends and share my creative projects online. But it has become a drain of both time and energy, and doesn’t seem to serve it’s purpose.
And after I de-activated I freed up time, headspace and creativity. The 20 minutes I spent preparing a post every day, and all the time I spent scrolling needed to be filled.
So, I started writing, painting and drawing more. And I got all inspired and dug through desk drawers and searched through journals to find other work I have made recently.
And I have put it all together in a little Zine called Vessel : An Anthology of Art and Writing
Anthology comes from the Greek Word Anthologia which means “a collection of flowers”. This is a little collection of poems, songs, paintings, drawings and essays to enjoy…
I am going to print a limited edition run this month.
LOVE ALWAYS WINS
Laura
XOXOXOX
Other exciting news…
🙂 5th August - We Are Joy Fest Summer Gathering - I will be singing and leading a singing cirlce https://wearejoyfest.com/products/august-5th-summer-gathering
🌸 28th-31st August - Into The Wild Festival - I will be singing with the Garden Voices and running workshops https://in2wild.com/
I leave you with a photo from my dining table altar yesterday, decorated with allotment-grown flowers : Cosmos, Echinacea, Calendula, Marigold, Dahlia and Rose.
