The Rogue Artist
The weekly love letter that reminds you who the fuck you are and who you came here to be. For the creative soul, the burnt out mother and the woman ready to unleash the potential of her creativity.
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The artist’s way for the reality of a creative mother. (opens the original)
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Gooooooood freaking morning!It’s 10am here as I write this, on a Tuesday, in one hour I have to pick up my mum from the airport. I’ll probably come home at 3pm scattered, tired, and not feeling in the flow but alas - that’s the life of creative and mother. Always splitting tasks in half and trying to find the little pieces where she was before. Beef cheeks are in the oven. My kid is home for the school holidays. I’ve cleaned the kitchen twice, and part of my mind is already at the afternoon pick
Sorry love, not tonight. My nervous system called. (opens the original)
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Dear Artist,Last week I told you to get your boobs out in the sun. Drive somewhere stupid. Stay up until 2am with too much wine and let a conversation hand you back a piece of yourself.Some of you loved that. Some of you read it and felt your whole body go nope.Not because you’re boring or because you’ve forgotten how to have fun. It’s because the idea of wanting something that much made your chest tighten instead of open. You’d have to feel things to do all that. And right now, feeling things i
How to feel alive as a creative when you've done all the resting and regulating (opens the original)
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I got fired by a meth head once.It’s kind of nice to remember that when I feel kind of lost, or when I start doubting myself in my creative endeavours. Like, well, wherever I am now, at least I’m not standing there being fired by someone who’s on crack? It was two years ago, maybe three. At the time, it was devastating. My life was already falling apart. I had taken on the work to get through the messy middle. I was being called away to emergency situations almost every day, and here I was, in t
Six acts of holy disobedience for the creatively numb woman. (opens the original)
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In the last piece, we talked about why your art can feel dead even when you are doing everything right.How you can follow the rituals, complete the course, honour the morning pages, learn the method, post consistently and become very fucking good at performing the life of an artist without encountering much of yourself inside it.We talked about the way frameworks can make us efficient before we have discovered what is worth making. How they can train us to recognise the path instead of sensing t
Why does your art feel dead when you’re doing everything right? (opens the original)
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