Award-winning Novelist Joanne C. Hillhouse Reviews Our Digital Collage Course

But why should children get to have all the fun? And what is play if not permission to make ‘useless’ stuff?

When I signed up for the digital collage course at imakeuselessstuff.com, I admit that play wasn’t my only agenda – I thought the skills I’d pick up would prove useful in my work (hard to switch off that adult-brain). But this work did feel a lot like play. And for the time that I played around with images and words, it was all I thought about – a reminder that play is a good way to trick the brain into relaxing. Read more.