bringing it home 🌱
bringing it home
Hi Sweet Humans! How has creating felt?Â
Being an artist as a job never stops being really weird. I've been doing it for awhile now and talking about yourself and sharing the pieces of you has never stopped feeling sticky for me. Every time I launch a new thing, submit a new illustration to a client, step on stage, move back from the painting to share it with other people, I get scared. A chorus of "they hate me, they hate it" RINGS OUT!Â
I'm not scared enough that I hide, but scared enough that I want to hide and scared enough I have to take care of myself in the right ways to be okay with sharing. I think this is where so many creators of all kinds (hi, we are all creators, so, everyone!) struggle. The journey to the idea, the nugget, the thing can be the most delicious part, but bringing it home, sharing the elixir you crafted so thoughtfully with the people? Hard. The choir sings WTF am I doing? Who needs to know about my work? What is my work saying and doing?Â
I've seen artists completely fumble through it. Make the art and when someone asks "hey how much is that" they make the buying process difficult, sharing strange, or close up shop all together. And fumbling is FINE. Maybe you wanna fumble. Maybe you're great at it and hey baby, if that is working for you, rock on.
But maybe you get the elixir in hand and truly DO want to share it with all the people around you. Maybe you're like HEY I MADE SOMETHING SO COOL AND I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW BECAUSE I THINK THEY'LL REALLY LIKE IT AND MAYBE THIS SMALL CONTRIBUTION TO BEAUTY IN THE WORLD WILL MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL (it will).
So, let's bring it home! yah?
If you're feeling like HOW THE FUCK DO I LIET PEOPLE KNOW I HAVE GOT THIS RAD ELIXIR!? Ya gonna wanna going Jacque and I TONIGHT! Thursday May 6th 6:30 Pm-8pm EST (recording available FOREVER if you can't make it live!)
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I love you
thanks for sharing your elixir of art with the world!Â
xx
phoebe
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