Ink from the Embers

Welcome to our two part special: Retreats. In early November we took retreats together, but separately. Toby headed to a museum to paint for five days, Corinne took to her family cabin for three days. This first episode contains our audio diaries. They hold our hopes and expectations, daily thoughts, and revelations. Next week we’ll […]

In this raw and revealing episode, we talk about community… and then talk about how we talked about community… and then again we talk about talking about what we talked about. This is a long and winding one, so we hope you’ll stick with us through this episode, as we both believe it was beneficial […]

In episode four, we talk about the conversations, challenges, benefits, and our experiences with partnership and collaborations. From the need to sit with and work through discomfort, to learning how to trust our own voices as part of a collaboration, to working through expectations (known and unknown), we dive deep into what it means to […]

As two introverted creatives, we come to this topic as two people who need solitude as a part of our lives, as well as our creative process. Solitude is a full and nuanced topic, and in this episode we try to dive into the nuance and layers of the concept. We talk about how for […]

In episode two we do a deep dive into the concept and impact of place. At first we take some time to talk about space vs. place, then we get into how much energy a change of place can take up, and the effects on our everyday life (mental and physical) including creativity. We tackle […]

In this episode we dive into restarts. We both are coming back to larger projects, and creative life in general after the summer season, asking big questions of ourselves and our work. What does it look like to come back to projects that you’ve put on the back burner? What has changed? What have you […]

Episode Twelve starts off with a quick announcement: we’re taking a summer break! This episode concludes Season One. We’ll be back in autumn, full of ideas and topics and creative pursuits.  The episode itself is all about distractions: what we’re distracted by and how we bring our attention back to focus on the job at […]

Episode Eleven: Cycles In this episode we do a deep dive into cycles and seasons. We discuss our creative cycles and flow and how they line up to seasonal cycles within the year. We touch on depression, seasonal affective disorder, and chronic pain, and how we can use knowledge of cycles, factors, and correlations as […]

In this episode we’re talking doubts and drafts. We get into how to find joy in the mess to help counter the doubts that come up in early drafts and stages of projects. We discuss sacrificial offerings to the creative gods, get a little bit woo about the process, talk about uncovering the story and […]

In this episode started out talking about time management but shifted into more project management. Our conversation meandered from prioritizing projects to setting up a life conducive to making art, being honest with ourselves about our situations and limitations as well as our goals. We talked through breaking down projects, and how sometimes the lines […]