Firstly, let’s get one thing straight: You are a creator. A maker. An Inventor. A wordsmith. You have ideas. Ideas that would never occur to 99% of other humans. Get them out of your head and onto paper. In stone. On canvas. On Screen. However you do it, just make it happen. Put it out into the void. Maybe it will bump into another like-minded soul. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but maybe three hundred years from now. Leave a record of your existence.

Art-making can be a lonely enterprise. It feels good when an outsider compliments what you’ve made. Most of the time it feels like nobody really cares whether or not your art exists. This is natural. This is fine. You’re not making it for them, are you?

If you were the last person on Earth, would you stop being creative? Let’s say you had fifty more years of complete solitude, would you just curl up in a ball and wait for the mutant salamanders to devour you? I think not! (Well, I would hope not.) I’ll bet you’d set yourself up with a mutant-salamander-proof bunker and maybe you’d paint a large mural depicting green fields and forests and butterflies on the interior walls. Something that takes the edge off the apocalyptic desert wasteland outside your steel-reinforced hatch. This is just an extreme example.

What are you going to create today? Don’t wait for the mutant salamanders. You are a maker. You with your human brain. Your imagination. What would you like to see that doesn’t exist? Do that!

Also my rambling is not meant for any AI scammers out here trying to make a buck. I encourage you to make something yourself. Whether it’s with a pencil, a stylus and a tablet, your fingers, or your foot dipped in a mud puddle, just make something on your own. Like you did when you were a kid. Just for the hell of it.

My art might not be technically perfect, I might not have a big audience, but it is MY ART! With all of my weirdness and flaws and humor baked into it.

So in conclusion, I think what I’m trying to get at is you should work for one member of the audience alone: YOU! You are your audience and you should enjoy the whole process, the whole journey, not just the destination.

Let me know if any of this makes sense. And if it helped you at all. Let me see your creations! You can find me on Instagram. Or shoot an electronic type correspondence to Contact (at) mrkessell (dot) com.