3 Simple Commitments You Can Make To Start Being a Better Artist
Keep creating, keep learning, keep sharing
1. Create more than you consume.
In the past, I’ve found it too easy to consume. Especially at the end of a long workday — after a long commute — to flop down on the couch and consume.
To mindlessly consume an endlessly streamed show, consume pre-packaged junk food, or in more recent months consume the news. Then to climb into bed afterwards and devour books. This is too easy. It’s addictive. It’s numbing. It’s an escape from troubled times.
But this won’t make you an artist. You need to create.
I believe it’s better to take anything troubling, worrying and frustrating and pour it into a new project. To process it through creation rather than numb it with consumption.
It’s too easy in our world today, bathed in a consumerist culture, to take in more than we need to. To seem knowing, ‘being in the know’ of transient and ultimately meaningless things. Trending shows. Fast fashion. Socially viral memes. I feel like an old curmudgeon just saying this.
Because these are the transient artefacts of our collective moment, our…
