Create to find your clarity

Creating isn’t the act of sharing what’s complete or totally codified in your mind. Creating is the act of the creator trying to get out what sorta, kinda, maybe makes sense, and then working it and working it until it makes more sense. It’s like slapping down a lump of clay and molding it and shaping it and agonizing over it. Their best works will then seem a bit more shapely than some of the things they toss in the trash, but most of their attempts end up somewhere in the middle.

Still, we can take solace in this idea that, no matter how long we’ve been working at our craft or how “good” we assume we are, creating is the attempt to understand. It’s not the sign that you do.

Don’t create to share answers. Create to understand.

Create to find your clarity.

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