Innocence Leads to Influence

You’re simply this moment. You are infinite possibilities. And if you undo what you are from your old story, then you’re able to change yourself very quickly.

You have an opportunity to push your potential in any direction you choose.

Everything that you perceive about yourself from your past does not exist right now. You are simply reading this.

The thoughts that you have are completely disconnected from you as a person - they are simply thoughts and they are entirely fleeting

If a thought shows up, just allow it to be there and analyze it.

Take, for example, the following statement:

I don’t know what’s about to happen, and that terrifies me.

Now change it to this statement:

I don’t know what’s about to happen, and I love that.

How do you think your perspective over the situation might change? And how do you think your reactions to what occurs in that situation also will change as a side effect?

Realize that all the self-limiting things that you think you are that limit you, are all based on past references or experiences.

If you choose to live with the perspective that you, in this moment, have infinite possibilities to change and improve, then nothing can stop you. You become dangerous.

Your past is not what you are. The power to be what you want to be, to get what you desire, to accomplish whatever you are striving for, abides within you. It rests with you only to bring it forth and put it to work. You must learn HOW to do that, of course, but the first essential is to realize that you POSSESS this power.

Intention

Our thoughts, feelings, processes, and unconscious beliefs have an energy that is hidden in the work. This unseen, unmeasurable force gives each piece its magnetism. A completed project is only made up of our intention and our experiments around it. If the work doesn’t represent who you are and what you’re living, how can it hold an energetic charge? 

Our work embodies a higher purpose. Whether we know it or not, we're a conduit for the universe. Material is allowed through us. If we are a clear channel, our intention reflects the intention of the cosmos.

The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s to amplify the differences, what doesn’t fit, the special characteristics unique to how you see the world. Instead of sounding like others, value your own voice. Develop it. Cherish it. The reason to make art is to innovate and self-express, show something new, share what’s inside, and communicate your singular perspective.

Artists transcend conventional boundaries. They widen the audience's reality, allowing them to glimpse life through a new lens.

Innocence Leads to Influence

Innocence brings forth innovation. Experience provides wisdom to draw from, but it tempers the power of naivete. The past can be a teacher, offering tried and true methods. It lures us into a pattern that absolves us of the opportunity to engage innocently with the task at hand. Experience makes innovation more difficult to access.

Childlike curiosity comes from being fully present, valuing play above all else, having no regard for consequences, being radically honest without consideration, and having the ability to freely move from one emotion to the next without holding on to the story. It’s authentic and beautifully pure.

Accessing a childlike spirit in our art and our lives is worth aspiring to. It’s simple to do if you haven’t accumulated too many fixed habits and thoughts. A child has no set of premises it relies on to make sense of the world. They experience everything as if it is for the first time - with awe and excitement.

When you see what’s present around you as if for the first time, you start to realize how astonishing it all is. As artists, we aim to live in a way in which we see the extraordinary hidden in the seemingly mundane. Then challenge ourselves to share what we see in a way that allows others a glimpse of this remarkable beauty.