“Stories make sense of ourselves and ourworld. This world and our lives within it are complex and chaotic: seemingly governed by forces not only beyond our control, but beyond our understanding. We tell and retell episodes both minor and major to colleagues, loved ones, therapists and priests, strangers on the train, a wedding guest (Coleridge [1834] 1978). A dynamic way of grasping understanding, it prevents us being pawns in events seemingly beyond our control. The danger is that story making can merely be tucking ourselves securely under a quilt patchworked out of safe and self-affirming accounts: ourstories can only too easily be essentially uncritical. Or, even worse, they are censoring tools: ‘cover stories’ (Sharkey 2004). This self-protectiveness can ensure ourstories do not explore sensitive issues, but are expressions of what we feel comfortable with, or would like to be.” – Bolton

I found this in the drive and after reading it I am eager to produce work that isn’t just an expression of what I feel comfortable with. I need to push myself out of my comfort zone to create a piece that’s not just interesting for people to listen to but also rewarding for me.