The Great Abyss

This video kinda shook my brain up a bit when I saw it last week. I hope it will do this same for you 🙂

“It’s often quite hard talking as the artist because I have to work… hard at it. To make anything good, I have to work hard…. But I bet you every artist has some form of insecurity… you know, about what they create. Rather [or not] it’s good enough. You know… Rather it’s gonna stay at the top or is it gonna still speak to people or is it gonna lose it’s ‘relevance.’ You can’t worry about those things though. You have to create.”
-Salomon Ligthelm (Composer/Filmmaker/Artist )

The Great Abyss

It’s not about staying at the top. It’s about facing The Great Abyss and being brave enough to surrender yourself to it. It’s about serving others. Making stuff that only you can make in spite of what everyone else is doing or saying about what you’re doing. Everyone else doesn’t get to make your stuff. You get to make it.

Success and Creativity have very little to do with awards or titles or benchmarks and everything to do with living a life you define for yourself, making stuff only you can make, and loving people.

Happy Monday!