At times, the creative practice asks us to suspend what we know about location, place, and context. To turn off the GPS. To drive in the dark.

Not forever, but for a time.

To allow ourselves to wander.

It takes a certain type of courage and discipline to operate in this way. To resist selecting from known solutions. To loosen our grip on what’s certain.

But in doing so, we find new pathways. We make new connections. We relocate ourselves on the map or we change the map itself.

In a way, it’s losing ourselves so that we can find ourselves again … enriched, and better for the journey.