When we create something, whether it’s a one-woman show, a video animation, a poem, a song, whatever—we’re taking what’s inside of us and stepping it out. Now it can be shown or heard. Now it can be experienced, transmitted. Now it can be shared.
Jeff Leisawitz, “How Creativity Heals Us and Why It’s a Gift to the World”, Tiny Buddha. https://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-creativity-heals-us-and-why-its-a-gift-to-the-world/, accessed 4 January 2021.
When it’s shared, parts of us that were once invisible, hidden, obscured, become known.
Perhaps you’ll get your fifteen minutes and become popular with the masses. More likely, it’ll be with your extended gang or just a few close people. And sometimes your creation will only be for yourself. Even if no one else checks out your work, it’ll still help you to see yourself. Become better known to yourself. Understand more deeply who you are.
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Shaw on the cello
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