Are you BORED yet?
Haven’t you noticed? Haven’t you? Yet?? How strange?
When was the last time you were bored? When was the last time you cared for anything at all? Nothing irks you anymore, you sleeping giant. Nothing can wake you up from your lethargic sleep anymore.
How strange? Why haven’t you noticed? What keeps you distracted? Why are you so tired even when you’ve slept for hours on end?
WHAT KEEPS YOU DEPLETED?
Haven’t you noticed? Don’t you miss it? The connection with yourself and the world around you?
I miss BOREDOM
There are certain artists out there who hold true power in a single pencil. Artists like Lewis Chamberlain, who was born in East Yorkshire in 1966 and has held an art degree from the Slade School of Art since 1988. Dear Lewis is a talent beyond comprehension, especially when you understand and see with your own eyes that he can draw fog with a pencil.
He can draw boredom and mundane with shadows dancing on the canvas as light touches it’s paintings. He holds true power and artistry in a single pencil, showcasing tantalising and mind-boggling details.
Lewis, with his art, draws the unnoticeable. At least that’s what I get from his drawings. His drawings have no lines, and everything blends in the background, yet you can see and feel everything.
Like a memory from a past no longer reachable. Stuck in a world where we’re connected by technology and yet…yet, we’re more disconnected than ever.
Disconnected from what truly matters. Boredom.
Are you BORED yet? Do you miss being bored, or are you anxious to take in everything as fast as possible? Are you consumed by FOMO as well? Because that’s what drowning feels to me.
Lewis drawing took me back to my childhood. A reminiscence of feelings and memories all art brings me back to. A moment in time where I witnessed true boredom and loved it.
So, now, while looking at Lewis drawing, I witness again the joy of the mundane.
I miss boredom. True boredom. When I used to count the lines in my hand or create shapes with white clouds. I miss the moments when I didn’t have my phone to interrupt my long process of boredom and diving deep into knowing my true inner self.
When was the last time we cared? Are we numbed to care for other people anymore, or do we not care because caring for others requires time? Time we don’t possess anymore. Time that is stolen from us.
When was the last time you enjoyed the moment? ARE YOU BORED YET? Are you?
Answer me? Don’t you feel the lack of depth? The lack of substance in everything. The endless and futile fights of division and hatred that are driven by overstimulation. Do you care in a world where caring is easier than ever but unattainable?
Do you miss, like me, barefoot moments where you stared at the endless greenery of your yard and the wind whistling into your ears—its endless song? Are you connected or more disconnected than ever? Tell me. What depletes you? What consumes you?
Find the answer and BURN IT DOWN.
Turn back the moment when boredom was enjoyable, true, and reachable. The moment when your creativity spiked as you stared to infinity.
Haven’t you noticed? Haven’t you? Yet?? How strange?
Because I have, and it’s killing me that everyone else hasn’t yet.
