8d • Tea & Pages Rituals
A Creative Life, Recorded
This week I saw an exhibition about Andrzej Wajda—the legendary Polish film director who also studied fine art and never stopped drawing.
His sketchbooks were everywhere in the exhibition: beside his films, his theatre work, his travels.
They weren't "practice" or "studies."
They were how he designed his films—drawing the stories before they became cinema.
Storyboards.
Travel journals from Japan.
Sketches of his pets.
Theatre set designs.
All mixed together in the same books.
What struck me most: these weren't for an audience.
They were his way of thinking, seeing, staying present. His private conversation with his work and his world.
He didn't separate "filmmaker Wajda" from "artist Wajda."
It was all one creative life, recorded in ink and pencil.
There's something about this that feels important to remember:
Our sketchbooks, journals, creative practices—they don't have to become anything.
They don't need to be content.
They don't need to be "good enough" to share.
They don't even need to stay in one lane (just painting, just writing, just one thing).
They can just be... the way we pay attention.
The way we stay connected to what matters.
A small question:
Do you keep a sketchbook or journal?
And if you do, what lives in it?
Or if you don't, what would you record if you gave yourself permission to just... notice and mark things down?
I'd love to hear. 💛
— Beáta
P.S. If you're in Kraków, Wajda also worked on founding the Manggha Museum—a beautiful space devoted to Japanese art and design. Worth a visit if you haven't been.
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