As I have been writing academically for the past year I am now tempted to reference definitions of everything I say….guess what? I am not going to! I am being a rebel and writing what I think without any reference to the literature, so there!

What is perfection? Sometimes people say to  me ‘I am a perfectionist’ that is why they are so neat and tidy. I say that depends on what your definition of perfection is! They do not get it. Is perfection tidyness or is that the sign of a lack of imagination? Can creativity be tidy? How can you create something new and awesome from a place of total control and neatness? I cannot resist this.. Brookfield spoke of the life being ‘gloriously messy’. Why do we not revel in that? Why is neatness and control so important to so many?

Below we have two watercolours, one is done from a photo so was kinda painstaking and the other was done en plein air and was done very energetically, far from perfection. Which one do I prefer? Which one do you prefer? Is attention to minutae perfection or boring and lacking in imagination and creativity? 

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