A wedding invitation rooted in storytelling 🥂
GAZETTE OLDWOOD #17 (excerpt)
The commission dearest to my heart came to life in this gentle month of June, after weeks of research, sketches, and that unreasonable fear of not being able to rise to the request. As we waited for a Parisian spring that never arrived — and now watch it dissolve into a stormy summer, heavy with the hum of the crowd — I had the honor of crafting a wedding invitation.
It tells a story whose secret belongs to the couple alone.
After all, one does not need to understand something to appreciate it.
Don’t tell me you’ve never heard this belief. In the collective imagination, the act of creating is almost considered divine.
In a lecture given in New York in 1939, Stefan Zweig explored the mystery of creation. To him, the creative process emerges from an unconscious state in which the artist is absorbed, not necessarily forming the clear thought that they stand at the genesis of something. And so, it becomes difficult — if not impossible — to truly describe the first sparks of an artwork.
“And then suddenly, this man achieves something none of us can do.”
One could almost laugh, right? Yes, creation holds its share of mystery, but everything else is practice. What explains that, past 80 years old, Michelangelo still said: “I am still learning”? I believe that anyone who places themselves in a constant state of learning — creative or not — is destined for the best results. Better yet, I like to think that by acting this way, we never grow old. Woe to the one who believes they already know everything and has nothing left to learn.
Think about it for a moment: is there something you wish you knew, or something you long to learn, yet keep pushing away for later?