Today sees my official, temporary departure from my Masters programme as I begin a year out to undertake a new kind of project – that of becoming a first-time Mum. All being well, the new arrival will be greeted in about a month’s time.
I’m looking forward to finding out how such a big change to my life and my priorities impacts on my creative work. So many other Mums are quick to tell me how tired I’ll be, how little time I’ll have for myself, how hard it’ll be for me to spend time and concentrate on anything: if you ask me, that sounds like business as usual!
One of the toughest things over the past twelve months has been trying to balance the lean, efficient, commercially driven, process-heavy, full-time demands of my design business against the time-intensive, self-expressive, self-indulgent and seldom commercially viable needs of the MA; and a couple of snatched hours of sleep between the persistent early starts, late finishes and inhuman deadlines are part and parcel of being a designer, so nothing’s new there!
Call me naive but I believe the impact on my creative work is likely to be a positive one. Freed from the ties of clients, emails and project deadlines, any creative undertaking will be wholly self-motivated and for recreation… after years of pimping myself out as a designer for money, what a liberating position to be in!
And then there’s the emotional journey that comes with having a new baby; could there be a better fuel for creativity than the highs and lows that are part and parcel of such a deeply moving and life-changing experience?
So here it is: a marker, a line being drawn under my work to date. See you on the other side!
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