words on creativity

we can’t always create

if there’s to be balance in your life, your emotions, your surroundings, there also has to be balance in your creativity.

in order to have times of profound expression, you need times of profound impression.

times away from the keyboard, the camera, the instruments. time consuming the writings, the films and the music of others.

if output is fueled by input, and you spend all of your time creating instead of consuming, you’ll burn through that desire to create, and be left kicking yourself, frustrated by your own self imposed creative blocks.

i’ve been there.

i’m starting to learn that periods of downtime and seasons of creative hibernation are okay. important.

see, i create best in bursts. most of what i make is done in one sitting.

i get a vision and do my best to pump it out into the world before it disappears, which it often does.

i, alongside the worlds best artists, have left countless projects, stories, videos and songs unfinished, and that’s okay. pieces of art that have endless potential, halted by a complete a lack of desire to complete them.

i’ve just come back from a small music festival, hosted by a beautiful forest across the river from where i live.

i was given the opportunity to play up on stage with some of the most incredible musicians i know, and to see some of the worlds most wonderful acts perform live.

although it was one of the most inspirational weekends of my life, i’m feeling depleted physically, emotionally, socially but at the same time charged to create.

all i want to do now is make more art.

and more art.more art more art

i don’t even really feel like finishing this letter, i feel like im preaching. pretending to be some sort of expert on the creative process.

i’m not.

but i feel like making this right now and i know it has to be written and published and given to myself and yourself before i decide that i want nothing to do with it.

this letter is shit. it’s not my finest piece of work by any means, but it just needs to be done, so i can always come back to it whenever i need the reminder. so here it is.

louis