buying art is magic 🦋
Sister Corita Kent's rules for creativity
Hi friend, how do you stay in your art? This time of year we are being asked for so much, our time, attention and money. And as a person that sells stuff I am constantly trying to remind myself (and the artists I work with) that art is worth it, and selling your art doesn’t make you a good or bad artists. AND I know I feel these things because *we live in a society* that tells us that art/creation/beauty/leisure/pure-cool-shit it not valuable. Economically or otherwise. I think there is such beauty in investing any time, energy or money in art.
Why is art worth it? Why invest our time and MONEY in art?
Art is labour
Art is anti-capitalist
Art is magic
Art is forever
Art is a protest
And on our deepest darkest days, we turn to the art around us to pull us up from the pit of darkenss. Art inspires the tingles along our skin, the sway on a dance floor and the finger pointing of “ooo I love that”
But in the attention economy I see the labour of art devalued. Everyone wants the cool art-stuff until it comes to paying the artist that has to make it. I look around and see the value of having handmade things as more important than the hands that make it.
So if we are going to live in the capitalist hellscape, let’s fill it with art. Let's fill it with the creation and beauty of exploring the universes inside our minds eyes. Let it ripple into our communities! To inspire action, new intentions, love, compassion, radical creation of a new world where art touches everything.
I won’t gloss over the systemic ways we may not be able to share. When we talk about money we are talking about our nervous systems, the feelings associated with giving sharing and redistributing into our communities. So while YES FUCKING PAY ARTISTS (and like, the amount of money they ask for and probably double tbh). Also yes share your artist pals work, scream it from the rooftops, share the resources you do have to give. And then PAY ARTISTS.
Actual human beings minds that created new things and brought them into the world and make the world a more beautiful place for all to be in
Soft Serve Pillows 💖// the best big weird squiggles in town
Milu Studios // My new fav big blobby earrings!!
Rec Centre // An online community centre!
Amanda St Maur // Design + Energy Healing!
ALL THE FUCKING INCREDIBLE ARTISTS I GET TO WORK WITH AT MY SWEET BABY OKAY SHOE
Viktoria Charlotte Studio // punch needle pillows!!
Aeris Korper // dance company creating SO MANY INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS OF ALL KINDS (spot my the notebooks I created for their kickstarter!)
QCardsAndGifts // the sweetest cards and earrings!
Melville // Tunes, zines, stuff to dive into
Silver Stitches // Eclectic embroidery hoops!
Laurel Boswell Sudios // aka where I got the sweetest mug I drink my coffee from everyday
My Dad And Me // The cutest dang ornaments you'll hang on your tree
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ITS MY BIRTHDAY TOMORROW! And if you wanna get me a present you can support HESN activists that were arrested last week. Our neighbours need help now. I do not understand how we are born three dimensional people on this earth (also we were not asked to be born???) and given no legal claim to shelter and safety.
big blessings for art and the magic it creates in this world
big love
xx
phoebe
p.s
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