Our dreams used to be untouchable. There were no real-world situations that could make us give them up or doubt their possibility. Even if THEE dream didn’t come true, there was almost instantly another one ready to take its place.
Read MoreAs a people, we should be allowed to indulge in certain practices (WITHIN REASON, OF COURSE) even if other folks don’t understand it.
Read MoreAs full-time, part-time, or undercover creatives our brains are always moving and thinking about the next thing. This isn’t because we don’t care about the previous or current thing or that it’s unimportant.
Read MoreMy apparent inability to complete a sketchbook says nothing about how much work I’ve produced in my life formally or casually. It’s quite the opposite. My ideas simply cannot be contained!!!!! I have work and ideas spread across numerous sketchbooks, scraps of paper, notecards, procreate files, and an unreasonable number of sticky notes.
Read MoreMy small town still has a lot of dealings with good ol’ paper. Sorry to them trees, sincerely, but I promise I’m doing them justice and not letting them go to waste. I turn everything from my pharmacy bags to junk mail to receipts into printmaking papery. Even more than finding workable papers, I enjoy preparing them.
Read MoreAnyone can call themselves a creative if they would like to. And everyone is at least an undercover creative, whether they recognize it or not.
If you want to make being creative a permanent part of your identity, you first gotta realize that it already is.
Read MoreAt this point you’re probably thinking I’m a jack of all trades but a master of none. Or maybe you’re not thinking that and I’m just projecting… This has been a niggling thought on the outskirts of my brain for YEARS now. It’s only been very recently that I’ve reflected and realized what’s really going on.
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