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Thursday Thought: Why Did You Stop Creating?
One of the questions I find myself asking artists from time to time isn't "What are you working on?" but rather, "When did you stop creating for yourself?"
Something I've noticed over the years is that a lot of artists never actually stop creating~
The work still gets made~
The commissions get finished.
The client work gets delivered.
The social media posts go out.
The shop gets updated.
The deadlines get met.
From the outside, it looks like a thriving creative practice~
Yet when you ask what they're making for themselves, the answer is often silence.
Or a laugh.
Or a story about a project they've been meaning to get back to for three years.
At some point, many creatives begin treating their own interests as optional. Everyone else's project gets a place on the calendar. Their own ideas get whatever time is left over at the end of the day. Which, as most of us know, usually means they get nothing at all.
I don't think this happens because people stop caring~ If anything, I think it happens because they're caring for too many things at once. The irony is that the work that first made many of us fall in love with creating was often the work nobody asked for. The strange experiments. The weird ideas. The projects that didn't need a business plan, audience, market, or justification.
Just curiosity~ and I love seeing those little sparks and glimmers~ there is something so beautiful in those random one off pieces~
Why did you stop creating for yourself, and what would help you start again?
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Thursday Thought: Why Did You Stop Creating?
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