Food for Thought

  • How to survive and thrive in a decaying system
    How to survive and thrive in a decaying system

    By Carmen Seijas

    The first thing that I thought about when I started working on this article was the title, first I thought of it as a question and then it became a statement. I realized that this writing was made of my own need to answer the question “how to survive and thrive in a decaying system?”
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  • How I changed my relationship with Social Media
    How I changed my relationship with Social Media

    By Carmen Seijas

    Photo by Carla Step  Yesterday I was reading a post that Vanja Vukelić wrote on her new website The Meadow, the post was called “Soul over brand: Navigating Social Media...
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  • Reflecting on Inspiration and Perfection
    Reflecting on Inspiration and Perfection

    By Carmen Seijas

    Whenever someone asks me why I don't do sketches, why I don't think about a clear project, why I don't define what I'm going to do before doing it, my answer is because so much intentionality, so much looking for meaning destroys the creative experience for me. 
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  • *Fe en el caos / Faith in Chaos *
    *Fe en el caos / Faith in Chaos *

    By Carmen Seijas

    “Tu visión solo se volverá clara cuando puedas mirar en tu corazón. El que mira hacia fuera sueña y el que mira hacia dentro despierta”― Cart GustavJung En los momentos...
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  • The Paradox of Productivity against Creativity. 2
    The Paradox of Productivity against Creativity. 2

    By Carmen Seijas

    About seven or eight years ago, I was interviewed by a friend for a magazine. We met at my house to have a tea and chat for three or four hours while our conversation was recorded.  I don't know with what divine patience she managed to make sense to my three-hour rambling, she decided to lead the interview with this iconic quote from Walt Whitman. Months later, when I read the interview, I realised how much she really knew me, because I had never felt so seen in a few words.
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  • The paradox of productivity against creativity
    The paradox of productivity against creativity

    By Carmen Seijas

    I used to be a workaholic, it was something I was very proud of. I defended and justified my addiction daily.Over time I realized how wrong I was to reduce my self worth to my expectations on my productive capacities, I reached a point where my love for creation and the healing qualities it had for me all my life disappeared and they were replaced by heaviness, apathy and rejection.
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