PHRANTONE 08-2023

24 Jan. 2023

Dear Phran Klub,

As an artist, my aspiration is to delight my audiences while being myself. When I'm successful, it's because I've protected time and space for creative work.

Abralind Art Week is an example of this. Every year for the week between Christmas and New Year's, my sweetheart and I rent a house outside the city where we can focus exclusively on making art. I wear a soft, baggy, light-blue onesie with a "No Mud No Lotus" patch sewn on the front. Trip-hop and lo-fi music rule the hi-fi. We avoid our email inboxes entirely.

This year, on a peninsula down by the Chesapeake Bay, I designed a new musical instrument called the “Delayed Gratiphone,” wrote five chapters for a book I've been working on called You May Already Be Autistic (find some of it on my Blotism Avg), and mocked up my first rough prototype for a blind-accessible jigsaw puzzle (the second-generation prototype is enclosed).

Wondering how to enable more of your own creativity? An executive at National Geographic recently hired me to produce a workshop on this theme for their team. It wasn't by accident that I titled it "Creative Boundaries."

Thinking inside the box,
Frankie (with a P-H)