Happy Friday!
This newsletter is all about making art as resistance, providing inspiration, ideas, and more.
In this issue: Side doors and pep talks⚡️
Side Doors
This one really shifted my thoughts on seeking work and creating art. There's the front door, of jobs and opportunities, which everyone vies to get in. But then there's the side door, one accessed via creativity and tenacity. The side door might be the way to slip past the AI bouncers and junk mail.
“The front door has become incredibly crowded. The system is lossy, saturated, and weirdly bad at detecting human signal. From the company’s side, this is hard. You are trying to find signal through noise. This is part of why side doors work: they create different kinds of signal.”
Pep Talk
A 1965 letter exchange between two artists offers a powerful pep talk for creatives:
“Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety. You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO.”
Linkapalooza
I'm reading: The Girl with a Thousand Faces, Sunyi Dean. Really cool mix of history with paranormal.
I'm watching: Tell Me Who I Am. A really lovely and haunting documentary about twin brothers, one of whom loses his memory. The other must tell the story of their family. He tells a better one.
I'm listening to: A mixtape I made : )
I'm sharing:
- Turn outsider status into advantage
- Immigrant kids' art
- 7 types of real rest
- Bedazzling for mental health
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