🧱 Advice about what to make
Book of TREE 2.42
Make real things.
Make human things.
Make things with stone
and wood and words,
with music and metal and pixels.
But make them real.
Make things that move people
without manipulating them.
Make things that are
difficult, things that make you
sweat and pace and crumple and start over.
Make things that scare you,
that make you laugh.
Have you ever made a thing
so delightful that
you clapped your hands?
Try to make one of those.
Make human things
for real people –
you know who I mean,
the ones with bodies,
wet and complicated and
birthed by this planet
but with just enough brain
that always we’re flying
to the stars and pulling gods
down to the dirt.
If you are outside the UK and haven’t apprehended this terrible pun: Wikipedia’s explanation.
Super limited edition print preview 3: It’s good to have a visible reminder that life is never static, that change is always happening.
Happy Thursday
Jeff
PS Stephanie does an excellent job articulating one of the big feelings underlying my 2025 trajectories: ‘Breaking Up with Healing – And Why I Think We've Taken the Obsession with Fixing Ourselves Too Far’
Make things that move people
without manipulating them. Love this. I find my worst artwork is when I think about what will sell instead of what I want to make.
When my grandchild said “I’m OCD” at 11 years of age, I said we’ve gone too far. I need a sasparilla!