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/retrospective series on creativity and growth
sketchbook_EP__why are you so shy?
VOL_01
1.naïveté
2.channeled
3.happiness
4.voiceless
5.shy
6.sage
Each volume in this series has 6ix chapters, representing the different phases of creative growth I experienced during a one-year period.
These chapters are recurring themes that popped up during a music challenge of writing one song a day for one year.
Pink represents shyness, like blushing; the struggle of putting myself online for the first time and finding my voice…in public.
All music is from that challenge. The art and significance is retrospective. Nothing was planned; meaning found itself in hindsight.
This is volume one of a multi-volume series.
Naïveté is the romance and innocence of starting a journey. The expectations are fun and that struggles will either be tiny or easily handled by future you. This is not a temporary state to overcome once and forever. Creative innocence shows up continually. But naïveté is okay…it’s nice and warm. A welcome feeling.
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ïv
eté
This is ‘creator’
Channeled focuses on moments of flow, when you’re in love with the process, almost like you’re tapping into another version of yourself. It’s a channeled-like state. These are great moments in an artist’s journey.
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nne
led
‘future man’
A version of myself who has already done the things I fear or doubt; a frequent cowriter.
Happiness represents clarity and trust in your feeling and intuition. Embracing your creative calling, despite external evidence saying this is the path.
hap
pin
ness
When I wrote this song, I was feeling…
Voiceless represents creative obstacles and bottlenecks…and…
voi
cel
ess
When I wrote this song, I was feeling…
Shy represents recurring feelings of being an imposter, struggling with confidence, overcoming shyness and dealing with the (s)low points of a journey.
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h
y
Like most of the work in this series, my meaning behind this art was found by accident. The pink represents a wave of self doubt; the scribbles are the chaos of negative self talk; the calmness in the face represents putting on a smile and hiding through it all.
When I wrote this song, I was feeling…
Sage represents wisdom and moments of growth…
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a
g
e
When I wrote this song, I was feeling…