The Life Giving Consequences of Creative Rest (essay zine)

The Life-Giving Consequences of Creative Rest is a personal essay on reckoning with what happens to creative practice when choosing slowness and softness. After noticing how my life, work and relationships have changed since taking a breath amid grief and turmoil, this essay captures a glimpse of what it feels like to resist systems of exhaustion while centering care.

Intentional Touches Throughout:

🍃 Interior pages that carry a burst of yellow light at the center to remind us of our radiance through decay and transformation.
🍃 "What if" prompts with open space for responses.

A Few of the "What if" prompts inside:

🍃 What if we imagined our capacities showing up as Care Guides from the future, revealing what we need to rest and recover?
🍃 What if we released capitalistic, white supremacist patterns that pull us away from our presence so we can become portals of possibility?
🍃 What if we explored what’s powerfully potent in our creative bodies and wants to be channeled and built through us, untethered to production and perfectionism?

This essay zine was originally risograph printed by sense of press in Baltimore, Maryland as a limited edition. After all copies sold out, I'm extending this digital version for folks to experience.

You can read more about this creation at: https://www.deniseshantebrown.com/creative-rest