Everyone needs to feel, loves to feel, seen and heard and felt. And your art does this for you, for sure. But it also does this for other people.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Art to Live podcast. I've recently got this really great question from an artist in Texas, her name's Lorinda Bourne.

And she had this question around something that I've mentioned before.

This idea of when we make our work more like ourselves, when our art becomes more personal.

It actually doesn't become more odd or more disconnected from the world. We tend to think that, right?

But it becomes more universal.

It actually becomes more accessible.

And this is so important to realize

because I believe that this is,

you know, what I want you to get from this conversation here

is the fact that it is so important

to move towards this authenticity again and again and again more and more and more in your work.

Just because we can't see it out there, right, if we look at what Picasso has done or any artist we know of,

it seems so personal, but we all know this person's work, and it seems so doable and relatable. But when we see our own work and it starts

becoming truly art unique, we don't recognize it almost in the world because it

hasn't come out yet. So it feels scary to put it out there and we think that it won't

relate, that it won't be understood that there's no place for this.

It's such an odd thing.

But as I said, quite the opposite is true.

In fact, it's a business plan.

When an artist delves into their own personal experiences, emotions, and perspectives,

they start to make work that's more authentic.

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