Introducing: The Creators Outpost ⛺️
If I am going to market my creations it's going to be an art project
Each week I show up here and write my little newsletter and tell you all about my art. And while I actually really love being here and find truly fucking incredible that I can hit publish on my art and creations to send to a couple hundred people – everything i do has to feel like art.
I have a sticky note placed over my desk right now “I craft magic in my community”. Part affirmation part goal and reminder to keep going. I realized while driving yesterday the number of pitch emails, sales calls, “what is that you do?” questions and answers I send out into the world – is a lot. I am really goos at talking about myself. One because of practise, two because I deeply believe my work is timeline collapsing and changing and therefore – generous to tell the world about it. I am not interested in hoarding elixirs in my shack in the the woods. Three because “being annoying” and talking about yourself is part of the job (and like – you’re not annoying I could write 43590843 essays in this, another week!)
But in all my talking about myself I wasn’t seeing the magic. I feel it. But it’s tough in the age where we can see our footsteps on the trail, how far we’ve travled and where we’ve left our mark. Yes I hit publish. Yes it feels in some sense like sending it into a void.
Sending something off into a void doesn’t feel like art to me.
My favourite job I had was a cleaning. I loved leaving homes with vacuum bags full of dirt. Physical evidence I was here.
Nothing felt better to me in undergrad then leaving the letter press studio with a stack of prints, the weight of the pages and softness of the newsprint, wrapped under my arm.
I craft magic in my community but I need to see the ripple. The physical findings of the path on the way there. Practical magic is action.
I craft magic in my community, because I can’t not. Words pour from my finger tips at times I don’t want them too. I create because I have to. And I know you create because you have too to. It’s not an option for me to not hit publish. Its not right for me to keep what I create to myself. I am of service to the channel of creativity, the spirit, the guide. I am but a conduit for the transmissions and translations from sky.
INTRODUCING THE CREATORS OUTPOST (well, one of four!)
A fairy house, a hut, a space to gather, a destination. A physical manifestation of my magic. A sign post, a location I know that when I hit “send” on a newsletter it is not longer landing in a void. But an outpost, a beacon, a flashing light of ARTISTS GATHER HERE.
For now they are placed around my city (if you are in Hamilton and have a front lawn or stoop you would like to host a Creators Outpost on hit reply here!)
Sharing our heart stopping, time line changing, worm hole inducing ideas – vision of a new world is never not scary. But if I am going to sell my creations, it’s gotta be art. It’s gotta be sanding and painting and glueing. It’s gotta be poetry and moss unfolding and it’s gotta be out into the world.
It has to be crafting magic in my community. 🪄🌳
FINDINGS🗺️
I am SO DELIGHTED to be teaching How To Make Art/Business starting June 4th! A 4 part course to bring the THING THAT SAYS MAKE into a world where you don't need to divorce yourself (or get a frontal lobe lobotomy) to make your art your business. 💸
After this class you will…
🌸 Actually get that idea out of your draft folder
🌳 Have a stacked roster of tools, (think artist bio, online and/or offline marketing strategy, library of copy!) to talk about you + your work
🤸♀️ Walk along a clear path, knowing what you want to do and how you want to feel doing it
🪐 Have a whole ass offering for the world to hit “add to cart” on
AND BECAUSE I AM REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT YOUR LIFE CHANGING THING BEING IN THE WORLD 😈 If you Sign up before May 28th you get a FREE BONUS 1:1 Creative Advising session with me to get started - like RN.
walking around Dundurn castle gardens with the Marie Antionette soundtrack on AKA what I have now dubbed “fairy walks”
Looking tulips in the eye
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Astrology meets therapist with my friend Isabella’s new course Internal Planetary Systems 🥰
big love and many blessings for the outposts our work lands in 🥰
i love you all
phoebe