that comparison game
Creativity and comparison cannot go together.
I think comparison can stop us in our tracks like a deer in headlights.
With the advent of easy access online to see what everyone and their brother are doing at all moments of the day in every time zone in the world, it can be super easy to think that our little offering does not add up to anything. Our creativity is not up to snuff. Is that even a phrase anymore? Snuff?
Here is what I return to again and again: when I open my albums. Or my mini albums. Or my art journals. Or even come across a rogue embellished tag stashed away in one of my dressers of supplies, it always makes me smile. I find I am always pleased with the effort I put into a project. My albums, while not all the time internet perfect, are mine. They tell our story. They are personal. And while Austin Kleon out there will tell you to share your work, most recently he wrote to keep some back for yourself. I think that is sage advice.
We need to continue to move in the direction of our 'you-ness'. Is that even a word? I mean, we hear it all the time: Be You. I take that to mean to creatively create what you want to create. Don't worry about how perfect someones Week In a Life album may look. It's not yours. Be you. Don't compare. Enjoy the process.
"...yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what..." I love that!!! Thank you, Madeleine L'Engle, she herself a forward struggling artist. Thank you for putting into works what I cannot.
Let's be us. Let's create the books and albums and cards and whatever that we want to create. Let's find inspiration where it can be found. But let's rest in our own making. What do you say?
The album shown in this post is a peek at an ongoing artist journal I keep adding too. And frankly, I made the binding way too small. You can look at other pages that are part of this mini right HERE. And remember, don't compare.
These pages were crafted using the oh so lovely:
Crate Paper All Heart Collection
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