I’ve definitely been taking to heart your words and art, and I love these Notes! Self-doubt is such a crusher…especially because the more you’ve shared/been yourself in your work, the more trust I’ve felt (openness?) to absorbing your words and art as a source for my own reflections. My monster is getting fed too! 😈
I look forward to this every week and so far have been amazed and astounded at how bang on you are. I too have been wringing my hands about trying to be a good artist making beautiful things with deep meaning blah blah blah...I can't! I won't! Let's have some fun - seems like a rebellious act and that's all the better.
Please draw a flying tahooty so I know exactly what you are talking about. (I have a dirty mind).
Also: resisting/transforming/breaking free so we are able to have fun (and able to decide for ourselves what having fun actually entails in our sweetly individual and particular little lives) means coming up against familial history, colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, sexism, and all of the other goodies we were born into that have shaped us (and by 'shaped' I mean battered). Not for the faint of heart or cowardly (thank all the gods and goddesses you are neither meek nor a wimp). Maybe fun could include kicking in doors, smashing mirrors, burning down family trees, and other violent but delicious metaphors? (You go girl).
I’ve definitely been taking to heart your words and art, and I love these Notes! Self-doubt is such a crusher…especially because the more you’ve shared/been yourself in your work, the more trust I’ve felt (openness?) to absorbing your words and art as a source for my own reflections. My monster is getting fed too! 😈
You got yourself another tahooty groupie here….
Flying tahootys galore!!!
I look forward to this every week and so far have been amazed and astounded at how bang on you are. I too have been wringing my hands about trying to be a good artist making beautiful things with deep meaning blah blah blah...I can't! I won't! Let's have some fun - seems like a rebellious act and that's all the better.
Thank you for being you! I wanna flip those 'supposed to go' rules around.
1. Find resilience and joy.
2. Love what you're doing. And if you don't love it, change something that needs to be changed.
3. Don't stress about it.
4. March to your own drummer and beat.
5. Be exactly who and how you are, in all your glorious imperfection.
6. Don't stress about it.
7. Don't stress about it.
Love the William Stafford quote. And also love how aesthetically pleasing your writing + art feels to me!
Please draw a flying tahooty so I know exactly what you are talking about. (I have a dirty mind).
Also: resisting/transforming/breaking free so we are able to have fun (and able to decide for ourselves what having fun actually entails in our sweetly individual and particular little lives) means coming up against familial history, colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, sexism, and all of the other goodies we were born into that have shaped us (and by 'shaped' I mean battered). Not for the faint of heart or cowardly (thank all the gods and goddesses you are neither meek nor a wimp). Maybe fun could include kicking in doors, smashing mirrors, burning down family trees, and other violent but delicious metaphors? (You go girl).
Just so you know, I give a big tahooty!