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Being Unbrave

It’s a wall. A wall of fear, even panic at times. I want to get to the other side, give my work an opportunity to flourish and be experienced in unusual ways, but the wall stops me. I cannot visualise myself using the software necessary to make these, what are to me, huge technological leaps. What am I so scared of? Being seen as foolish, stupid even? Of failure, of messing-up? And if that is all, so what? So what? That is what I should be saying to myself. Who was the American president that the journalist was quoting yesterday, in the piece that he read out to me as I prepared supper? He was the one who set up the New Deal in the 30s – Roosevelt? Anyway, he spoke of trying something, anything, in order to find a solution. And, that if it fails, admit to it, and try something else. It sounds simple. I come a long way. Remember that. And be brave. If you can.

By Ellen Bell

Artist and writer currently living in Aberystwyth.