https://livesteven.com/2026/06/24/lets-pretend-we-can-get-in-the-mind-or-guts-of-great-artists-and-consider-how-anish-kapoor-might-translate-the-question-whats-a-time-you-followed-your-gut-and-it-turned/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-06-24T12:49:29+00:00Let’s pretend we can get in the mind (or guts) of great artists, and consider how Anish Kapoor might translate the question, ‘What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right?’ This is a blog preparing to see his new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.dailyprompt, art, travel, history, painting, exhibition, sculpture, hayward-gallery, dailyprompt-2807, anish-kapoor, gut-and-guts, reflective-redemptionhttps://livesteven.com/2026/06/23/i-used-to-believe-theatre-was-about-an-actor-playing-a-role-in-preparation-for-simon-stones-oresteia/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-06-23T07:15:42+00:00I used to believe theatre was about an actor playing a role. In preparation for Simon Stone’s ‘Oresteia’.dailyprompt, art, theatre, dailyprompt-2805, simon-stone-oresteiahttps://livesteven.com/2026/06/22/the-best-advice-is-to-be-aware-of-and-distrust-the-impulse-or-the-advice-of-others-that-you-be-always-in-control-of-what-you-say-and-do-for-it-too-often-means-that-you-surrender-yourself-to-the-con/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-06-22T15:53:31+00:00The best advice is to be aware of and distrust the impulse, or the advice of others, that you be always in control of what you say and do, for it too often means that you surrender yourself to the controlling ideologies of the status quo, which is, often as not, embodied by that which demands your self-control. I think I learned this from Adam Nicolson’s characterisation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his ‘The Making of Poetry’ (2019)dailyprompt, poetry, writing, poems, literature, history, william-wordsworth, dailyprompt-2801, s-t-coleridge, adam-nicolson, the-making-of-poetry-coleridge, the-wordsworths, and-the-year-of-marvels, dorothy-wordsworth