Seeing Your Path - Nicholas Wilton - Ep 137

Art2Life

Nicholas Wilton

Self-improvement, Education, Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

https://Art2Life.com - As an artist, the thought of not knowing what comes next is bothersome. But “not knowing” is often necessary. Sometimes we have to spend time pondering what’s next.

We need to give ourselves space and time to sit with the discomfort of uncertainty. We have to get comfortable with the phenomenon of doing and not knowing.

I’m painting right now. I’m doing one thing at a time, uncertain what I will do next. I’m simply being present with what I’m making.

In this episode of the Art2Life Podcast, I explore finding clarity by sitting in a place of not knowing. Join me on the journey of not knowing.

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LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN…

[1:33] The idea that clarity comes from not knowing

[11:35] Knowing everything will eventually come together

[14:11] Understanding the fundamentals as your foundation

[15:57] Embracing vulnerability in your art

[21:20] Sharing your ideas to bring them to life

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

Adam Wolpert’s Art: http://www.adamwolpert.com/

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Art-Arts-Transform/dp/0593449231/

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0:00.0	And it's literally why I called art to life, art to life, because it's this life piece that we're just doing this metaphor thing where this thing that I made today says so much about where I am and the feeling of who I am in this moment and the accidents that happen, the happy accidents that improve things, that I can say, this feels more like what I'm
0:23.5	after. That's okay. And a big healthy dose of not knowing is exactly what we need. I think really
0:34.4	quite frequently.
0:39.2	Hey everyone.
0:41.0	Welcome back to the Art to Life podcast.
0:46.7	I'm here today making some art and not entirely sure what I'm going to make.
0:51.7	But that ties perfectly into what I want to talk to you about today, which is about getting a sense of your path before you're there,
0:57.5	basically seeing your path, even though you haven't figured out what that is.
1:07.9	Welcome to Art to Light, a podcast for the Creatively Curious.
1:12.2	My name is Nicholas Wilton, and each week I'll help you rediscover not just the art of your life, but the art in your life.
1:19.5	Join me as we explore that perfect blue at twilight, the wild frontiers of art making, and the extraordinary joy of finding your ways you go.
1:33.0	So I'm going to start painting regardless.
1:37.9	And as I lay out these paints, actually this is perfect.
1:41.1	You know, I'm choosing colors, right?
1:43.5	I don't know what I'm going to do at
1:45.6	all here. I just grab some paintings, some starts that were left over from workshops and everything.
1:52.5	And I'm grabbing colors quite intuitively, just what I sort of feel, what feels good. I picked up the pink and then I put it back down.
2:02.5	I'm grabbing the yellow. So I'm just going to grab a few colors. Now, here's the beginning of this.
2:09.7	And I have experienced this. So I know exactly how many of you are feeling. What happens? And it often
2:15.2	happens mid-year, at least to me. You get pretty focused in the
2:20.2	winter and then distractions come in and you can lose momentum pretty easily with your work. Or maybe
2:27.0	you have a show, you have something and you accomplish a lot in the spring. And then you get hit
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