Patricia Forde

And when you're bored, what do you fall back on?

You know, you fall back on your own head.

That's all you have.

And in your head, you make up stuff.

And out of that, I think, comes all kinds of creativity.

Yeah.

I'm a great believer in a philosophy.

It's very prevalent, I think, in France about falling over art.

That we shouldn't have to go looking indoors for art.

We should fall over it.

We shouldn't have to make a plan or an appointment or book a ticket.

We should walk down the street and fall over art.

And I often say to parents at home, one thing I found was really good is to leave books on the kitchen table,

in the bathroom, wherever, that they might fall over them.

So that you're not saying, oh, read a book.

It's there.

They're curious beings.

If they see something interesting on the cover, they might open it.

And I think it comes from growing up in Galway, where we had a lot of street theatre with mockness and stuff.

So if you went down the street, you never knew what you might fall over.