How to reclaim your birthright as an artist

Who you were before the world told you otherwise...

I never believed I was an artist. But I always desired the title. It felt cool to be known as someone who creates beautiful things.

But I never had the focus to commit to building one creative skill long enough to deserve the title.

People told me “You need to pick one thing and be good at that.” “you need to be paid to be an artist”.

I kept cycling through creative practices thinking “this is the one” Drums, Guitar, Piano, Writing. I’d reach a point where I felt like I was done with one and then moved on to the next. Every time the dream of “being an artist” just stayed a dream, never manifesting.

But through the years and chaos of switching, I realised it’s not about developing a skill. It’s not about being insanely talented. It’s not about picking one craft. It’s about being in the creative process.

And creating, is not reserved for someone with credentials. It’s a human right.

Whether you realise it or not. You are an artist. Artists create.

They bring things into the world that were not there before: a song, a sculpture, an idea, a handwritten note, a dance move.

And they make visible the things that we overlook: a painting of a mountain, a self portrait , an idea with a fresh perspective.

Ideas, intuitions, feelings, all converted into form.

We first learned to communicate through art. We drew cave paintings, lines in the sand, symbols. It’s how we spoke.

Art is older than language and we’ve been artists long before we were able to speak.

But we’re forgetting this method of communication.

Speaking is quicker than drawing, typing is quicker than handwriting.

Speed is king. AI is here. It’s fast, yet we’re trying to keep up. We produce a manufactured version of art, shortcutting the primal process of interpretation and foresight.

It’s often said that life imitates art. You could say that art is the foreshadowing of reality.

We drew on rocks to fore-warn tribe members of danger, turned visions of robotic futures into film and wrote about events before they occur.

We felt things, we knew things and turned it into art.

Artists create based on what they foresee, what they intuitively know, what feelings they feel.

Artists interpret signals and manifest reality. Their spirit knows what science doesn’t.

“It’s not unusual for science to catchup to art, eventually. Nor is it unusual for art to catchup to the spiritual.” - Rick Rubin

Art is born from intuition, feelings. A person feels something true and creates it. There’s no logic, there’s no sense just a spiritual moment.

A personal truth doesn’t always equal objective truth, but often art is the instigator for objective truth.

When an intuition is observed, science steps in to prove its objectivity.

Science eventually proves what is spiritually known.But this process takes time, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia. Neuroscientists proved what Buddhists knew 3,000 years ago.

Our logical brain wants to prove everything all the time, the creative brain wants to create regardless of logic, that’s the spirit making its way into form.

Unfortunately the logical brain tends to win most of the time.

Society is not driven by art. Everything we do is based on logic. A system.

We’re born into system, get educated through system, go to work through system, die through system. Art barely gets a chance to breathe.

The logic brain is king in the modern world. Feeling, intuition and the spiritual take a back seat.

Art gets labeled “non-logical” or “it doesn’t make sense.”

Being an artist becomes a title you earn. You must go through a system or steps to obtain artist status or must be paid to be defined as an artist.

But this is not true.

Being an artist is your birthright.

We were created to create.

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