Do Niksen!

Sit in silence

Sit without thinking about anything.

Sit just staring off into wherever you are.

WTF is this hell ?!

This is Niksen. The Dutch art of doing absolutely nothing, and doing it without guilt.
It's watching dust motes drift through a shaft of golden light, letting your tea go lukewarm because you simply forgot to drink it, following the lazy path of a cloud until it dissolves into blue.
No productivity hacks, no mindfulness goals, no outcome to chase. Just you, unhurried and unscheduled, remembering what it feels like to simply be.

To some that sounds like a world that treats busyness as a badge of honour, Niksen is quietly radical. It asks nothing of you. No productivity hacks, no outcomes to chase, no boxes to tick. It is, perhaps, the most counter-cultural thing you can do on a Tuesday afternoon: pull up a chair by the window, let the light fall where it wants, and simply allow time to pass.

Unhurried.
Unscheduled.
Wonderfully, beautifully unproductive.

When we stop rushing from shot to shot, scrolling through feeds for inspiration, or obsessing over editing queues, something shifts. We start to notice the way afternoon light pools on a kitchen table, the fleeting expression on a stranger's face, the geometry hiding in an ordinary street corner. A bloke waiting outside a servo lost in thought.

The tiny stuff.

The real stuff.

The best photographs aren't always captured by the busiest photographers; they're captured by the most present ones.

As a photographer we are tasked to capture a moment within a frame. And as tempting as it is to include everything in the frame, we find the opposite a more powerful narative.

The more we grow, the more you strip away. The hidden objects off frame, the negative space, the removal of all that is unnecessary to tell a story. Just leaving that beautiful little mote of dust that captures the silence and sense of wonder in the scene to convey whatever the bloody hell you are trying to get across.

That is the pinnacle of a craft.

So enjoy the quiet.

No agenda. No optimisation. No performance.

Just sit there like a slightly confused house cat in a sunbeam.

It’s probably healthier than half the stuff people are trying to sell you online anyway.