When did you last create something that truly came out of you? Whether art, writing, music, or even the way you live your life, there is a distinction to be made between creating to impress and creating to communicate.
This article encourages you to slow down, pause, and relearn the art of being seen by someone, not by the masses, but by someone who knows how to unlock the real you.
Love Brings Out the Real You
When you’re loved for yourself, and not for something you do, something is different. You begin to trust yourself a bit more.
Consider how much energy you invest in trying to measure up to others. As you transition from approval to connection, your creative process relaxes. You just have to be yourself, unapologetically, filter and mask-free.
Authentic Artwork Starts with Acceptance
Acceptance is the gate to authenticity. Start by accepting your fears and flaws, not as roadblocks, but as part of your story.
What in me am I still pretending? What would I create if I dropped my own voice judgment? Real creation starts when you no longer pretend and begin listening. The more honest you are to yourself, the richer your work is. Even on internet sites like JILI, where creativity is married with strategy, honesty goes deeper into your work and makes it touch other people more.
Inspiration Is an Emotional Connection
Love gives significance to what you do. Love reminds you at all times that creation never has to be perfect; it’s always a matter of emotion. Any song, poem, or photograph that touches your heart has the fingerprint of love somewhere along the way.
When you create with love, you’re not racing against trends; you’re interpreting feelings. You’re constructing experiences that touch the human heart. When you’re working on a piece of work, crafting a story, or constructing a project, allow feeling to guide the process. People respond to what feels authentic, not what is cool.
Vulnerability Is Strength
Exposing is getting revealed, and that just terrifies most of them. But exposure is where community starts. When you expose your work, your mind, or your heart, you invite other human beings to do the same.
Don’t conceal your rough edges; expose them. Lay out the times when you nearly quit, or when you were struck by love. That vulnerability turns your audience into a community.
Love as the Creative Compass
Love will ultimately direct creation where reason has no way. Love will instruct you in how and when to begin, when to cease, and how to release. It will assist you in discovering sense in chaos, purpose in the unknown, and meaning in the ordinary.
When you allow love to lead your work, you cease comparing and begin relating. You create things that are of substance, not popular, but alive.
Wrapping Up
The beauty of being found out is vulnerability. If you are working out of love, you don’t fear being found out. You welcome it as part of the labor. So, if you desire your work to touch, begin where all good art starts, with love. Work out of the heart and not for everybody. That is how you make your work timeless, something authentic.
