I am told I look too long and too intensely at others, but despite my efforts not to impose I find myself spellbound by the inner world of strangers, as by those I know.
People are my endless source of fascination. I am drawn to those things that lay beyond the shell, the furtive gaze, their tone of words, the truth of how another feels.
To uncover is to find. To find I have the chance to understand.
As I work on a new piece of music I listen as much to how it moves me as to its evolving beauty.
I stand outside myself and within.
It is the same for the making of images and the building of words. For art to work well it makes me feel.
I ponder on the value of my weakness. The weakness of my body, my mind, my frailty of self. Some are more straight forward to admit than others. Some are so deeply embedded they have become a part of my nature.
By acknowledging my weakness I take a small step forward, I appreciate better the weakness in others, and I counter the conceit and dangers of my ego.
William Shakespeare
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Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.