if you knew you couldn't fail and you would be excited about it,

then it's the kind of thing this person was saying to challenge yourself on. episode 58 of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations

that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and

me Louise Fletcher and we have got an interesting discussion this week we're going to be talking

all about comfort zones partly because I had a tiny, tiny little thing that really threw me nearly off making a very big decision for a very silly reason.

And I just thought, well, isn't it interesting how we have all these little thought processes that kind of throw us off?

So that's really what prompted me to say, oh, oh, let's talk about this week.

But first of all, what have you been working on?

Well, in the week that we're recording this, because we're a few days behind obviously,

I've been working with you on this pop-up group that we ran for the

art to life free workshop which is now over but it was so much fun and somebody

said to me I don't know how you're managing to do all this with

everything else that you do and I couldn't manage it every week of the year but it reminds me again at this time of year how amazingly fun it is to be part of a community of artists and I was thinking back that I when I first came back to making art I felt so alone at it and really didn't have anyone to talk to about it and felt a bit weird that I was interested, so interested in that and so passionate about it.

And now it's the opposite. I feel like...

Slightly obsessive about it you mean?

Yeah and like the other people around me are a bit weird. It's like the normal people are the ones I know online and even now I have I am beginning to get to know real in real life people also which is nice but yeah so it just

this last week we're working really hard on that to try and build that community

to make sure everybody got the most out of what was

being given to them for free but really enjoying it as well. I think you make a good

point about you can't function like that all the time and I think actually often

there are lumps and bumps in these kind of projects that we do where it feels like a

really good idea and then it feels overwhelming perhaps that's why we spoke about overwhelmed last week

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