“We’ve confused ‘output’ with ‘value,’” she says. “I have a rule: I don’t create anything before 11 a.m. I don’t check my phone until I’ve finished one stupid, useless thing. Draw a snail. Memorize a single line of a poem. Count the number of tiles on your bathroom floor. That’s your real work. The rest is just commerce.”
So she vanished. No Instagram. No newsletter. No fermentation workshops.
“I don’t know if any of it will matter,” she admits, smiling as a crow—no, really—lands on the balcony railing behind her. “But at least it will be mine .”
Alison Mutha’s memoir, “The Third Setting,” is available for preorder now. Her show “A Kindness of Crows” runs Nov. 15–Jan. 10 at Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
“We’ve confused ‘output’ with ‘value,’” she says. “I have a rule: I don’t create anything before 11 a.m. I don’t check my phone until I’ve finished one stupid, useless thing. Draw a snail. Memorize a single line of a poem. Count the number of tiles on your bathroom floor. That’s your real work. The rest is just commerce.”
So she vanished. No Instagram. No newsletter. No fermentation workshops. alison mutha magazine article
“I don’t know if any of it will matter,” she admits, smiling as a crow—no, really—lands on the balcony railing behind her. “But at least it will be mine .” Draw a snail
Alison Mutha’s memoir, “The Third Setting,” is available for preorder now. Her show “A Kindness of Crows” runs Nov. 15–Jan. 10 at Regen Projects, Los Angeles. That’s your real work