goofing off/bad art 🥝
goofing off ☁️
Hi friend! When was the last time you went into something with 0 expectations? Tried doing something for the sole purpose of being bad at it? Fucked up? Played?
I love making mistakes. I love carving out time for being shitty at something. And truthfully I think it's important to create time fuck on up purpose. We get better at telling our inner critique/bitch in our heads/inner saboteur to shut up if we already know we're not going to be ~great~ at something. For me fucking up and playing looks like
Morning pages
Roller skating (A year later and I am still truly horrible and i love it!)
Dancing (I took a voguing class last week and wow, also not great at it!)
There is so much in the world to tell us to not carve out time for goofing off, finding play, it it truly a radical act. I think the more we integrate play, the more we protest, the better we get at what our mission is, the thing we're trying to say, the nugget of what we're trying to create + do in the world.
I wrote a sticky-note reminder to stay committed to myself but just MAKING SOMETHING! ANYTHING! And then I scanned it, got my friend Sara to print it and then painted a bunch of blobs on it. So if you also need this artified sticky-note reminder, I have it here for me + you to remind ourselves to be "bad" at stuff.
* Bad in quotations because there is no such thing as bad art, that is a binary invented by capitalism and academic institutions to profit off of 🥰
Places to facilitate your (bad) beautiful art!
I've collected all the worksheets I've created over the last year into one beautiful pack of discovery and exploration and play! Grab your fav pen, print these sheets out, transfer them to your fav notebook, crack open a fresh google doc, you know how you like to work best, and dive into making and journeying through feeling okay!
OKAY HANG with Stacey Sproule is tomorrow at 6pm and I am JAZZED! Join the Portal for the link to all things creative collaboration + art + feeling!
big blessings for bad art and play in all its forms!!
I love you, thank you
xx
phoebe
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