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the life-giving
consequences of
creative rest
MY FIRST SELF-PUBLISHED ESSAY ZINE
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PUBLISHER
Self-published
PUBLISHED ON
April 2024
WRITTEN BY
Denise Shanté Brown
DESIGNED BY
Denise Shanté Brown
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interior pages that carry a burst of yellow light at the center to remind us of our radiance through decay and transformation.
"what if" prompts with open space for responses
riso printing by sense of press, independent publishing & risograph printing studio based out of Baltimore, MD, one of the places I call home.
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What if we imagined our capacities showing up as Care Guides from the future, revealing what we need to rest and recover?
What if we released capitalistic, white supremacist patterns that pull us away from our presence so we can become portals of possibility?
What if we explored what’s powerfully potent in our creative bodies and wants to be channeled and built through us, untethered to production and perfectionism?
my living definition of
creative rest
The felt experience of one's rest being valued throughout a creative process and/or creative life, as much as (or more than) creative labor.
Rather than focusing on urgency, productivity and survival, Creative Rest emphasizes ease and is spacious and protected.
It extends continual permission for creative beings to focus their full expression on the practices of slowness and softness while honouring life's natural cycles of decay and transformation.
a breathing
bibliography
Creatives, experiments, works and spaces who embody creative rest
Take Care of Yourself: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation by Sundus Abdul Hadi
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey, The Nap Ministry
The Artists’ Grief Deck, a project of the Artists’ Literacies Institute (producer) and Adriene Jenik (creative producer)
yes, please: a bookhouse and carespace an intentionally curated collection of books by Black women and gender expansive writers for purchase and lending
bless our breath deck initiated and designed by Kimi Hanauer and organized in collaboration with Gas
More inspirations will be added overtime. If you have some you’d like to contribute, I’d love to know about it! Email me at design@deniseshantebrown.com
ESSAY, ZINE, SELF-PUBLISHED
the life-giving consequences
of creative rest
ESSAY, ZINE, SELF-PUBLISHED