Unlike

Here are some of my favourite Wayne White paintings. I look at his Insta feed often and it reminds me, yes, to unlike: to trim my friend lists and contact lists, to unfollow things I don’t like or consider fake, cut the soul-sucking Voldemorts out of my life. But it also reminds me to unlike myself. Try to destroy the ego, abandon my sense of who or what I am, forget my name (noun) and focus on the verbs – paint, write, play, sweat, cook, garden, pet, smile, run, cycle, swim, dream, choose, love, live, do…

If you want to know more about Wayne White’s work, watch the documentary Beauty is Embarrassing.