Hello hello it is (almost) my 29th birthday and as it is tradition around these parts to write a 29 by 29 (you can catch last years 28 lessons here!) I have 29 lessons I have “learned” in my 29 years on earth. And before we get into it I want to shout our and also welcome to the (substack) stage my 29 sagittarian soul sister
whos 28 lessons inspired me last year 🫶 (go check out her 29 here!)They are subject to change at any given time, I have never claimed to be an expert, not do I want to be. This is my forever work in progress list, my surrender to the process and trusting myself I will show up sword in hand, when I am ready.
29 lessons in 29 years.
Don’t force it
Everything is an experiment
Make for me first, everyone/everything else is just a bonus
Destroy build destroy
If you don’t see that world you want to live in, create it.
If the person my gremlins measured me against walked into the room right now, I wouldn’t even like them. Pay attention to the standard you are holding yourself to. Sometimes you are measuring yourself against something you don’t want to become (or believe in).
Sometimes it can be easy
You can let it be easy
You cannot control the outcome
Stop for fairies
You will regret the donuts you didn’t eat than the donuts you did eat.
It happens all at once and then nothing at all
There is no such thing as being “too much”, there is such thing as someone else not being able to hold all of you. That is their problem.
If is safe to dream the life you want. It is safe to live in the life you want.
Give yourself what you need.
Ask for what you need.
Being embarrassing is always worth it.
Your body contains multitudes, you contain multitudes, let yourself be multitudes.
If everything is an experiment I am an researcher and explorer. Act accordingly
A very quick way to travel to Paris is my reading a book in the closest park. Always read a book in the closest park.
If you stay open to all things, all things are possible
Trusting the process is an act of trusting the process
If you say you want to trust the process you will be given opportunities to trust the process
It has to be beautiful
It has to be pleasurable
There isn’t always a lesson
And I don’t always have to write about it
But I trust my notes app will be there for me when I do (write about it💕)
I know nothing, I wish to ever know anything at all.
And if you wanna give me a birthday gift I would really really appreciate you sharing with a friend 🌸 the group chat, posting on sosh meeds! or forwarding this email your best friends neighbour. Word of mouth is the most special and radical way of sharing 🪄Thanks for being here
FINDINGS 🗺️
A kind of extra special addition of the findings this week as I share with you! Kinda like a gift guide but if a gift guide was made of artists doing REALLY FUCKING INCREDIBLE SHIT! WAYS TO BUY FROM ARTISTS! WAYS TO SUPPORT ARTISTS! I asked on my IG last week for artists to tell me what they were selling. Heres what they said 💖
Lets send
on her Cape Town ceramics residency! I let out disgusting guteral noises when I see Gabrielles WIP on my IG stories!Sweet Ela is here to help us all make more art! Adaptive Systems 1:1 support sessions! A chance to have an expert in your corner, helping you build systems that work the way you do and that can adapt to ~life~ so you can spend more time doing what you love (like making more art ;)
I AM HAVING A BIG old birthday sale with ALL my courses + 1:1’s + AND the okay oracle deck all on sale for 29% off cause I love you and me like that!
I have my eye on multiple prints from Brianna at Penrose press! Brianna and I did our undergrad together, I thought Brianna had an eye for detail back in the day but if you want to nerd down with some printmaking and nitty gritty detail boy oh BOY you’
Ok SPEAKING OF DETAILS! Joey Bates’ paper sculptures are😍 Joey makes paper relief sculptures, predominantly botanical dealing with upheaval, change, and energy dispersal.
These wildly beautiful natural dyed creations from
+ this whole as IG post is just a masterclass in multi-hypheneate artist sharing thier work with the world
xx
Phoebe 💕
*typos are left to reflect the fury passion and 3D humaness of being a passionate freak in the world – and you know not a robot *beep boop* I am just a human girlie living on earth with a mortal brain 🤸♀️
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Are you an artist selling things?! Drop it in the comments below so we can keep this v unofficial gift guide going 🫶 or maybe your gift this year is a lesson you’ve learned, I’d love to hear from you.
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