This sounds like something from Lynda Berry. Drawing circles, like making a spiral, can well, let’s have John Green explain it.
This doesn’t work for me. I don’t chill out. I look at the empty space and how much circle drawing to get to the end. And it’s going for the goal, not just drawing circles. And that is the point. Just draw circles. Do not make things with them. Just draw.
Austin Kleon touched on this topic in Something to Do. Which is about being cooped up, locked up, land all that stuff I don’t understand during the lockdowns of Covid-19. He describes it like this.
There’s an essay in Zadie Smith’s Intimations called “Something To Do,” in which she thinks about why she writes. She comes around to this very simple truth: “It’s something to do.”
~ Austin Kleon
Something to do? I don’t lack for things to do. There are way too many things to do. I keep trying to keep myself focused on what (pick one, any one) thing to do.
There is always plenty to do. It’s like being an artist. I’ve got this studio, a home with lots of space downstairs. I get to do lots of somethings. As soon as I move out all the stuff I’ve accumulated.