Misunderstood on purpose
- a resolution for 2026.
ML Issue 44 - A weekly takeaway for creatives 🥡
“I am interested in the unfinished, the broken, the imperfect.”
Mona’s notes
I’m fed up...👹
For months now, since my show last July, I’ve been frozen - not because I don’t know what to do, but because there are too many versions of what I want do, and I keep trying to reconcile them before acting.
I’m tired of trying to be coherent before I act.
There’s friction in letting go of being understood. It means people might project, misread…lose interest. It’s like living without captions.
But the alternative is worse: paralysis posing as ‘thinking’.
Lately, there’s only one question that I’m playing with:
Am I willing to let people misunderstand me for 12, 18 months..or more?
Not as a strategy. As a refusal to keep explaining myself into stillness. A refusal to polish something before it’s even alive. I don’t have any idea where I’m going right now but I know how I want this journey to feel - like it’s mine.
I’m starting to realise that being misunderstood is the price of movement. I think it always was.
Love Mona x
