A million years ago (~14 years ago) heard Denzel Washington say in his commencement address that “to get something you’ve never had, you have to do something you never did” and it has stuck with me because it’s true! I think about it whenever i have a scary-feeling goal that requires an equally scary course of action.
At Yaddo, I tried something new and didn’t know it would lead to anything and ended up with something I really love. Upon leaving, the advice I got was to not expect the work at home to exactly mirror what I did at the residency, so i’m going to have to spend the next while figuring out how to move forward.
I outline the first bit of the process in my last post -
And I’ve put the next bit behind a paywall, because it really took a long time to write this out, and it also feels a little bit too raw to just have OUT IN PUBLIC for everyone to see.
Music is one of the main characters in the comic, and so, for fun, I’m also including the playlist that I listened to on repeat, and a writeup of why each song means something to me, haha.
Thanks for reading <3