There are periods where everything seems to align. No resistance, no doubt, just an urge to make things that spills over.
Euphoria doesn’t look the way you’d expect. It’s not an explosion. It’s more like an opening — a way of seeing where everything feels possible, where connections between ideas form without effort. You make things you wouldn’t have dared in a more measured state.
What’s interesting is what it reveals about what you actually want to do. Decisions made in that state tend to be closer to what you’re really after than the ones made after careful consideration. Less calculation, more instinct. And instinct, when you trust it, sometimes produces the most honest work.
The problem is that it doesn’t last. The state passes, and what it leaves behind needs to be looked at with different eyes. Some things hold. Others seem to belong to a moment you can no longer quite reach.
But that lightness, when it runs through a piece, you can feel it. You don’t always know where it comes from. You recognise it anyway.
— Studio Ninette, designed in Belgium.