Wanda Howe

Graphic Designer by day. Nights & weekends are spent reading, sewing, knitting, making art (drawing & painting) and thinking entirely too much. I have a feverish kind of need to learn about everything in the world & then to create related things in an attempt to make sense of it all. Frequently found diving down rabbit-holes and connecting dots.

Ben Okri says:

There is a secret trail of books meant to inspire and enlighten you. Find that trail.
Read outside your own nation, colour, class, gender.
Read the books your parents hate.
Read the books your parents love.
Have one or two authors that are important, that speak to you; and make their works your secret passion.
Read widely, for fun, stimulation, escape.
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
Read what you’re not supposed to read.
Read for your own liberation and mental freedom.
Books are like mirrors. Don’t just read the words. Go into the mirror.
That is where the real secrets are. Inside. Behind. That’s where the gods dream, where our realities are born.
Read the world. It is the most mysterious book of all.
© Ben Okri 2006. All rights reserved

I believe in this wholeheartedly and I think it also applies to visual art, & programming, & science, & plumbing, & taxidermy, & whatever other field you’re into. This is how I live my life.

Topics of interest to me are: nerdy TV, visual arts, advertising, design, books & writers, Japan, knitting, crocheting, needlework, passionate & geeky people (people who are authentic and fearless to be themselves).