2021 was the year of starting over, of picking everything up where we left off, while finding that someone or something had changed. It was the year of collective anxiety in which we had to make up for lost time, which is why we made it unlivable by adding yesterday's duties and projects to today's, events and jobs, halving the meaning and pleasure.
"What is the point of having more time if one does not know how to inhabit it? Extended time full of anxieties and lacking in satisfaction?"
The theme of the 2022 diary, the gift we designed and created for our customers, is 'liberated time', which is something different from free time. It is the time of awareness, the time when you choose to be beyond obligations, but it is also the time of flow, creativity and fun.
To be happy one must have time to waste.
It may seem paradoxical to talk about free time in a diary, a useful tool for not wasting time, for organising, for reminding ourselves that we have to do something. When we have free time, we can feel paralysed because we do not know what to do with it. Unstructured time is a rare commodity.
In a weekly planning format, we put content relative to the time freed up.
The idea was to create a space to be used as you wish, to be filled with pleasure and of creativity. An unhurried space, to be filled - why not - with colour and drawings, but above all to be used to clear the head. No guilt. Just permission. Whatever that means.
