5x7 Oil on Masonite Panel

It’s well known by now that screens (you’re looking at one now!) provide so much stimulation and sensory input that we become distracted and unfocused. It changes our brains. I often feel untethered and scattered with my phone in hand; “Oh, what was I about to look up? Why did I go to this app? Oh wait, look at that…!” It goes on and on, and we’re not the much better for it. But still there are those precious, non-tech moments when, perhaps, we have a chance to daydream and reflect. It might be over something as mundane as doing the dishes that we relive a treasured memory or come to a difficult decision. Or we might just be spacing out, which is a good thing too.