Your work consistently identifies, exemplifies, and uplifts communal creativity and the spirituality of collaboration. It’s refreshing—but more than that, it’s affirming. In a time that emphasizes using our talents to build community, your message gently subverts that norm by suggesting we use community to build talent—to nurture something truly great. I think that’s why I keep returning, aside from your uniquely calming tone.
In a way, it feels better than me—admirable because it’s attainable, but still, always somehow better. Better because I’m missing that essential piece: community in my creative practice. Especially now, after having been so community-driven in my younger years. I’m hoping the reverence I feel for your work brings me closer to a return.
Thank you for that. I love that my work resonates with you so much. It affirms that you identified it as doing the things I hoped it would.
But please, please, do not compare yourself. I am not better. And one should not compare oneself to others, only to former versions of oneself. But even that pushes the narrative that we need to get better than we were, which we do not - we all are worthy and beautiful just as we are (well, some people could be better lol). Remember, "Comparison is the thief of joy."
Plus, then I would have to get into comparing my art skills with yours, and I'd lose that :D so I won't.
Your work consistently identifies, exemplifies, and uplifts communal creativity and the spirituality of collaboration. It’s refreshing—but more than that, it’s affirming. In a time that emphasizes using our talents to build community, your message gently subverts that norm by suggesting we use community to build talent—to nurture something truly great. I think that’s why I keep returning, aside from your uniquely calming tone.
In a way, it feels better than me—admirable because it’s attainable, but still, always somehow better. Better because I’m missing that essential piece: community in my creative practice. Especially now, after having been so community-driven in my younger years. I’m hoping the reverence I feel for your work brings me closer to a return.
Thank you.
Thank you for that. I love that my work resonates with you so much. It affirms that you identified it as doing the things I hoped it would.
But please, please, do not compare yourself. I am not better. And one should not compare oneself to others, only to former versions of oneself. But even that pushes the narrative that we need to get better than we were, which we do not - we all are worthy and beautiful just as we are (well, some people could be better lol). Remember, "Comparison is the thief of joy."
Plus, then I would have to get into comparing my art skills with yours, and I'd lose that :D so I won't.