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8 Aug 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Patrick Larsen $0.09
If your creative output depends on inspiration showing up, you don't have a process. You have a gamble. Let me push back on one of the most beloved ideas about creativity: the muse. The story that you wait, inspiration arrives from somewhere beyond...
21 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.10
Twenty-five years in, I've never once seen a lightning bolt. Here's what I've seen instead. In October 2025 I gave a keynote at World Stage Design in Sharjah — the quadrennial performance-design event, this time in the UAE. I started with work I had...
7 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.09
What Lila at Enchanting Valley taught me about continuity. Here's a principle Lila drove home for me: if you want a place to feel whole, don't design the show and the venue as separate jobs. Design them as one. Lila is the resident show at Enchantin...
6 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.27
When the same person writes it, directs the vision, builds the set and designs the costumes, a show stops feeling assembled Here's a small idea about creative work that Varuna proved to me better than any project I've done: coherence is easier to bu...
