Creating Safe Space for Making, Loving, and Marketing Art

In order to create art at all, you’ve got to create safe space for yourself.  It’s one of the most important ingredients for building a creative practice, especially when you’re trying to bridge from making art in a classroom environment to making art out in the world.

But what most artists might not realize is that by making safe space for you to create, you transmit that safety into your art.  You end up making safe space for the people who look at your art as well.

Art is a vessel that holds feeling and experience.  When you make safe space for your feeling and experience, you also make safe space for your viewers feelings and experiences.  The joy, inspiration, sadness, or anger they feel has a safe space to be.  You help people feel known.

To me, this is a pure act of love.  You are putting unfiltered love out there when you put your art out in the world.

The interesting thing is, to really take it to the next level, you’ve got to create safe space for your marketing as well.  

Doing this is the same process as it is for making safe space to create your art.  You’ve got to stay in Beginner’s Mind, allow time to learn new skills, trust that the seeds you’ve planted are going to grow and laugh at yourself when it doesn’t work out.  

Most of all, you’ve got to listen to positive voices that help you keep the faith that this is going to eventually work.  Also, continue to search for the fun in the process.  How can it be more fun??  This will help you find success.

All of your efforts compound, so really it’s a matter of learning to support yourself through the process until the compounding starts to add up.

The coach with the lighthouse metaphor that I mentioned is George Bryant.  

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