by Peter | Apr 15, 2020 | borrowed thoughts
It is our knowledge – the things we are sure of – that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from learning. Lincoln Stiffens
by Peter | Nov 23, 2019 | borrowed thoughts
Art is a basic human need, a basic human activity. It is what makes us human and offers us the tools to become ourselves. In a time when we are driven mad by the lure of false desires and the promise of objects of consumption, art can be a free and open space of...
by Peter | Oct 2, 2019 | borrowed thoughts
Plato speaks of an artist turning the invisible world into the visible. I hope that someone seeing my sculpture is lifted out of his ordinary state Takis
by Peter | Jul 27, 2019 | borrowed thoughts
The fool is a very important character in a Shakespeare play as he fulfills two important functions: He has licence to speak truth to power with no holds barred – in a context where no-one else dare do that, for fear of their lives – and he acts like the chorus in...
by Peter | Jul 25, 2019 | borrowed thoughts
An unreliable narrator is a first-person narrator with a compromised viewpoint Narrators serve as filters for stories. What narrators do not know or experience cannot be shown to the reader. The first-person narrator is powerful because that viewpoint is the only one...
by Peter | Feb 15, 2019 | borrowed thoughts
The actors I like most are those who have an air of mystery about them, who don’t make themselves bigger than the story they’re telling. I’ve tried to be like that myself. I think, as a storyteller, you’re interested more in the darker aspect of things. Often...
