Does pain make you more creative?

Emotional shocks and grief can blow your life apart but they can also be the very thing that connects you to what it is to be human.
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Image Sarah Harvie via Solid Air Designs

In 2009 artist Sarah Harvie lost her husband; six months later her father died; and three months after that her father-in-law had a heart attack an.

It was a series of shocks that made her disregard all of the things that she usually saw as constraints: money, time and resources and really seize the opportunity to explore and experiment in her life and her art.

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Christine Long
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Christine Long is a Sydney freelance journalist.