​HE: Why do you write?

​ME: To trick myself into being satisfied with what exists. Writing releases me from my fear of running away. The imaginary holds me in place, pinned to the scene for an instant. 

​HE: But isn't it real, then? Aren’t you bringing these characters into the world of your reckoning in order to give yourself a false sense of company? I mean, do you believe in them?

​ME: I do. That’s the worst part of it. I believe in them.

​HE: How?

​In A Treatise on Painting, Leonardo da Vinci described a new method for “awakening the mind to a series of inventions…by looking attentively at old and smeared walls, or stones and veined marbles of various colors, you may fancy that you see in them several compositions, landscapes...with an infinity of other objects.”

And, so, we will look attentively at three paintings and invent worlds for them. This workshop dives into the untamed parts of our imaginations and honors the possibilities that hold us in place.

You can join me in this workshop with Conscious Writers Collective by registering here.