Don’t you just love being obsessed with someones work?
I was listening to my brother’s music this morning and I was completely inspired by the sheer number of things he has available for us to listen to.
I love the work of Derren Brown, he’s been creating tv shows, specials and live theatre for nearly 30 years.
Fred Armisen is another person who’s work I completely adore.
Michael Jackson’s work completely inspires me. An endless world of embodied craft and spirit combined to move us.
All of these people have a wonderland of creations we can dive into. Hours and hours of work and unconscious competence has gone into creating their body of work.
A body of work that is uniquely the voice of the person it comes from. They made it for the people who understand and relish their work. That sense of “hey, this is just for you.“
The fact that I can binge on their art is the most inspiring and exciting feeling. At any moment I can immerse myself into everything they create.
Often as creatives we get caught up in making something perfect or (worse) trying to make something everyone will like.
Never mind that.
Make something for your people. The people who want what you got. Who understand the artistic and human questions your work is posing. Who get excited by what you’re excited by.
Make it for them over and over again. And more and better and more.
Let there be a natural arc to your work. Don’t try and make an arc, let it emerge.
Be unsure and share it anyway.
Have an earnest question you’re hunting the answer for.
Try your best.
Get specific.
Excert your craft.
Reference your heroes.
Draw on thousands of other artists you love.
Be generous and make a lot.
Your people are hungry, be a good host and feed them.
AI Image Prompt: make a picture of a table in the garden of eden overflowing with plant based food, with music books and art and delicious fruit and vegetables. This image embodies abundance
