"In some recent discussions with friends who are also creatives, I have heard a
variety of responses to the question, 'How has Covid-19 affected your
creativity?'Some have been inspired to create new work. Others have spoken about
a year of fallowness. It's a term we rarely if ever hear in a culture devoted
to--or better put, obsessed with--constant productivity. Take agribusiness:
every acre and every creature must give maximum yield all the time, even though
that is un-natural. Nature functions in cycles, and one part of that is rest,
which leads to renewal. Traditionally, that was the way people understood
cultivation: "And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase
thereof; but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow..."
Mirka Knaster shares more in this thoughtful essay.
