Refilling the Reserves
- RAMLOËT
- Jun 1
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 21
A short trip to Queenstown taught me that slowing down and noticing small details can spark new creative inspiration.
Time away doesn’t always mean stepping back, sometimes it is simply a change of pace. Queenstown gave me that with more movement, more light, more air. We spent days walking and racing down hills, sharing meals and trying new things, and the rhythm shifted in a way that felt right.
That change stayed with me in quiet ways. Rooftops layered beneath the ridgelines, the lake holding the late afternoon light, evenings closing more gently than I was used to. Back home those impressions became more than memory, they felt like a foundation to build from.
It was never about one view or one moment. It was about how everything came together, the rhythm of a day, the textures of a place, the balance of light and movement. It felt like a new way of seeing, and once I noticed it there I began noticing it everywhere.
At home the morning light filtered through trees, a breeze moved across water, stone walls felt rough under hand and lake surfaces lay smooth beside them. Details that once slipped by began to feel like material in themselves, fragments to work with that drew me away from the expected and into closer attention.
The piece that followed is Queenstown inspired art, it is not a memory preserved but a translation of experience into form, shaped with soft tones and steady lines, a balance of stillness and motion. It is not a landscape or a scene, but a response, a way of letting influence spark something new.
Julia Cameron writes that creativity needs a foundation, something real to draw from, not forced ideas but space for them to surface, and this work grew out of that kind of grounding.
It holds the textures and rhythms of those days in Queenstown, yet it is more than memory. It is about leaving space for the unexpected, finding meaning in the overlooked, and building slowly from there. I wanted it to feel as though it belonged in a home, made with intention and not decoration, carrying a quiet story within it.
-- AM
