Drawing the Chicken: Notes From a Creative Life
Aditi RaoI’ve been writing, playing with clay, and teaching for twenty years. In this newsletter, I think out loud about what that my creative practice actually looks like — process over product, the long work over the quick result. Pull up a chair.
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Drawing the Chicken 26: A Prayer for my Daughter's First Home
Last year, I said “yes” to my baby girl on 17th April. I was on CARA’s Anywhere-in-India waiting list, and my daughter happened to be born in Kashmir. We started making plans for the adoption committee meeting when we would go get her home;...
Drawing the Chicken 25: Stepping into Comfort Zones
It’s been a month since my daughter turned 1, and almost 11 months since she was first placed in my arms. The journey from saying yes to her on 17th April last year to bringing her home on the 29th of April was the longest journey I have be...
Drawing the Chicken 24: On Spring-ing
It has been a while, just over a year, since I last posted on this Substack.
It has been the year I began to become a mother.
I say began because motherhood feels like a constant state of becoming, of being. To mother is a verb— a doing...
Drawing the Chicken 23: Take a Risk/ You Can Pass
In the workshops I teach, one of our first agreements is always to find our own unique moment-to-moment balance between the ideas of “take a risk” and “you can pass”— to challenge ourselves to go into the new and unfamiliar territories wher...
Drawing the Chicken 22: On Chaos and Planning
In many ways, my partner and I are as opposite as opposites get. We also work brilliantly together for this reason: he thrives in chaos, and my anxiety response is to make endless spreadsheets. We both need the other.
We are deep in the m...
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