Category: everyday artist
-
The Artist and Her Sh*t Sandwich
(*Written in 2016, while the author was in film school) Elizabeth Gilbert talked about the concept of “shit sandwiches”, which are the not so awesome things you have to do to get to your goals. This is where the phrase “you gotta eat your shit sandwich” stems from. A phrase my sister and I usually…
-
The Artist: Reluctance and Creativity Bias
For the longest time I’ve been reluctant to call myself an artist. The closest I could get is my artist temperament. Jk. It’s to accept compliments when people tell me I’m a creative person. I’ve always needed some form of external validation that what I was doing was somewhere close to being an artist. And…