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Welcome back to Creatively Exposed.
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I recently did a workshop at Mochaomi for those who
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are in the South Florida area. And over all of
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the times that I've done workshops that I have been
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in commune with creatives, Caribbean creatives, especially specifically, what I've
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learned are a few things, and I think this is
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important for creatives across the board. I always look at
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it in my lens because it's just, hm, I guess
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I'll go into that later if it if it works right.
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But ah So.
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As a poet, it always feels to me, to me
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like you gotta have something new. Every single time, you
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gotta have a new poem. You have to submit something new.
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Nobody told me that. I just that's what I be
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putting on myself.
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Right.
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And I've been, you know, workshopping several poems and all
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of a lot of the poems that I've loved have
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been accepted into places, and so.
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I'm like, I need new work.
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And someth a someone told me years ago, and I
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ain't gonna let this shit die because it can be
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dangerous to get a critique this way. Right.
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I was told that.
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My novel Siloquly of an Ice Queen was basically the
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ability to say the same thing differently right, So it
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felt like it was repetitive. I didn't agree because I
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felt like I was creating an arc and it ended
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up being its own Like it's a novel and verse,
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it's its own arc. I'm telling a story. You gotta
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continue the sequences so you know what the fuck happens,
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because it's not necessarily fiction, but it's moving anyway. Go
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read to Loloquy of an Ice Queen. Uh, it's out anywhere.
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You can ask for it in your library. But what
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I have learned through being in community with visual artists right,
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which I think literary people an artists of many other
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mediums should hang out. We can learn a lot from
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each other.
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But also.
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I recently learned the current exhibit is the Maiden is
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the Warrior, which if you are in South Florida and
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you'd like to check a local museum, check Mokaomi. It's
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a phenomenal exhibit and it dances between worlds, interdimensional. It's portals,
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which I didn't get to like really realize like I
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got it, but being able to listen to the artists
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be in the same space with her and have her
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talk about her work.
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Allowed me to be in.
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This world, right, that's in between liminal space in where
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she creates her stuff, right, her art, and she discussed
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repetition and for some reason, and it's always the most
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like basic, not even basic, but it's the most simple
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thing that.
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Is often overlooked, at least for me when I'm creating.
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Work and what I'm thinking about work of my own art,
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and like, I always want to do something new, But
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how do you perfect the things?
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How do you? And maybe it's not perfection? How do you?
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How do I? How do we.
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Really flesh out the world if we don't keep visiting, partaking, dancing,
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creating within that world?
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Right, I'm like, maybe.
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People are tired of my like afrofuturist things. I mean,
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after nine hundred million nose on manuscripts, poems, things get
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to you.
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I'm a human beings, what the fuck?
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But also thinking do I stay in this in this world?
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And I keep writing things within this world? Different views,
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different experiences, different parts of.
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And it was like a nod to.
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It doesn't look the same, None of her art looks
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the same, but they all live in the same world.
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These are poopets, which are dolls, but these dolls they're
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not They're they're like cheaply globules and portals and majestic creatures.
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And I think that's what a lot of my writing is.
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They're like these globules of something. They're inklings, they're spiritual
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communes and downloads of imaginings. And I just thought that
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was like, really, just really a reminder that it's okay
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to keep creating within the same world, especially if you
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like that world, to be honest. And the other thing
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is allow things to be slow. It's eleven eleven, make
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a wish, y'all. It's okay for things to take time.
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The artists said that their exhibit they had been working
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on these poops, these concepts since twenty sixteen, it is
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twenty twenty five, and that they created new artworks for
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this exhibit within the same year, like seven artworks, but
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every single piece is in conversation with each other, but
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they're very different from each other. You see the progression,
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you see the evolution of what this world and what
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these creatures become, and so you know, we all don't
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need permission, but perhaps an affirmation, right. I also wrote
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this on substack creativity through the lens of visual artists.
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Things I learn while I'm workshopping, I be learning. I
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facilitate workshops, but I also get a lot back. Take
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your time. Everything's on fire, some things that should be
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more than others. There's a new world coming, but rushing
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everything doesn't give us a full picture. Repetition, not reputation,
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is devotion, but hey take it how we live.
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Repetition is devotion.
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To the worlds that we create, to the imaginings that
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we have, to the possibilities that we desire. Intuitive creation,
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you don't really got to know fully where the shit's going.
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You will be led eventually through the thing. Follow the
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what if. That's what I always say. Dance through the possibilities,
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have fun, play, follow the awe right, change as the
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flow moves you. The artist was talking about, you know,
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it's been a while since I've done like words and
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used words in my art.
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I think I'm gonna go.
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Do that again, and I think that's also powerful, Like
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I'm gonna revisit this. It feels like it's time to
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do this thing. How many things have we put on
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a shelf or left a draft and never came back
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to and then either it calls back to you or
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it's always in the back of your mind.
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Go go open that thang up.
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What are you losing right Some of us are losing sleep,
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like I should be sleeping right now.
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But it's something to.
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I guess invite into our day to day. Stillness isn't
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stacking it. That's for my therapist a luma be well
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on Instagram. Y'all go be nice to my therapist because
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we'll have a problem if you not. Stillness isn't stagnant.
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It is rhythm beckoning us forth. Sometimes we need the disconnect.
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Sometimes we need the silence. The residency is right, the
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intentional quiet, the moments in a studio, at a keyboard,
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wherever you do your thing, that is dedicated time and space.
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Artists need time to be theirs. There may be do dates.
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I got du dates, but outside of that, most times
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we need to be experienced by the sun. We need
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to let life take us places. We need to engage
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in art. There are things I didn't know that I
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placed a I had a k drama on hold and
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I started watching it during a trip, and I waited
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all this time months to watch this cave drama because
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it gave me the answers to something that I'm working on.
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I was like, oh, this is exactly how this scene.
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Can unfold.
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I didn't realize, but here is the insight that I
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was waiting for.
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And so when we.
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Allow ourselves to be in our I know, circadian rhythm
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is for sleep, but like our artistic circadian rhythm, right,
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that's where the magic happens. That's where the magic unfolds.
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And so.
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Maybe this was useful to you, it was useful to me.
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I'm sitting with that realizing that I gotta allow things
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to unfold, and some things take.
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Longer than I want them to, and everything.
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Does as it needs, and sometimes that feels very vague.
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There's shit to be paid right now, you know, but
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preparent of goes sleep. But sometimes things suffer through the
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systemic man made not lack of resources, but like the
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fabricated restrictions and boxing in of resources. There is so
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much out there, and being in survival mode and in
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the desperation of making things happen steals things from us
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on purpose, And wherever you can allow.
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Yourself the support.
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And reclamation of time, I invite you to do that.
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You can't hope you can't dream, you can't desire when
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persecuted or suffering, and so.
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I don't know.
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Allow things to take time, That's what I will say,
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Allow things to unfold, focus on what is most, what
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is the emergency now, so that thriving and possibility can
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fit somewhere in your life.
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It's a lot of.
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There are some really necessary yet awful things happening. Necessary
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is in the need to resist, the need to say
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that this has not been working for a long time
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and has reached its peak. And this is also the
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time when artists get to work and so stay safe,
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protect each other, and may we all be building towards
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the world that we desire because it fits all of
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us in there.
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When I leave you with that, y'all.
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Definitely combining two different uh thought processes in the episodes together,
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I think if I could do it, and stay tuned
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for an interview that will be happening.
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Next Monday. Thank you, y'all.
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Welcome back to Creatively Exposed.
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I recently did a workshop at Mochaomi for those who
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are in the South Florida area. And over all of
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the times that I've done workshops that I have been
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in commune with creatives, Caribbean creatives, especially specifically, what I've
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learned are a few things, and I think this is
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important for creatives across the board. I always look at
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it in my lens because it's just, hm, I guess
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I'll go into that later if it if it works right.
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But ah So.
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As a poet, it always feels to me, to me
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like you gotta have something new. Every single time, you
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gotta have a new poem. You have to submit something new.
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Nobody told me that. I just that's what I be
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putting on myself.
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Right.
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And I've been, you know, workshopping several poems and all
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of a lot of the poems that I've loved have
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been accepted into places, and so.
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I'm like, I need new work.
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And someth a someone told me years ago, and I
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ain't gonna let this shit die because it can be
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dangerous to get a critique this way. Right.
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I was told that.
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My novel Siloquly of an Ice Queen was basically the
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ability to say the same thing differently right, So it
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felt like it was repetitive. I didn't agree because I
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felt like I was creating an arc and it ended
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up being its own Like it's a novel and verse,
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it's its own arc. I'm telling a story. You gotta
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continue the sequences so you know what the fuck happens,
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because it's not necessarily fiction, but it's moving anyway. Go
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read to Loloquy of an Ice Queen. Uh, it's out anywhere.
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You can ask for it in your library. But what
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I have learned through being in community with visual artists right,
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which I think literary people an artists of many other
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mediums should hang out. We can learn a lot from
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each other.
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But also.
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I recently learned the current exhibit is the Maiden is
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the Warrior, which if you are in South Florida and
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you'd like to check a local museum, check Mokaomi. It's
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a phenomenal exhibit and it dances between worlds, interdimensional. It's portals,
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which I didn't get to like really realize like I
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got it, but being able to listen to the artists
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be in the same space with her and have her
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talk about her work.
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Allowed me to be in.
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This world, right, that's in between liminal space in where
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she creates her stuff, right, her art, and she discussed
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repetition and for some reason, and it's always the most
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like basic, not even basic, but it's the most simple
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thing that.
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Is often overlooked, at least for me when I'm creating.
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Work and what I'm thinking about work of my own art,
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and like, I always want to do something new, But
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how do you perfect the things?
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How do you? And maybe it's not perfection? How do you?
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How do I? How do we.
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Really flesh out the world if we don't keep visiting, partaking, dancing,
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creating within that world?
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Right, I'm like, maybe.
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People are tired of my like afrofuturist things. I mean,
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after nine hundred million nose on manuscripts, poems, things get
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to you.
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I'm a human beings, what the fuck?
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But also thinking do I stay in this in this world?
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And I keep writing things within this world? Different views,
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different experiences, different parts of.
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It doesn't look the same, None of her art looks
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the same, but they all live in the same world.
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These are poopets, which are dolls, but these dolls they're
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not They're they're like cheaply globules and portals and majestic creatures.
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They're like these globules of something. They're inklings, they're spiritual
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communes and downloads of imaginings. And I just thought that
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was like, really, just really a reminder that it's okay
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to keep creating within the same world, especially if you
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like that world, to be honest. And the other thing
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is allow things to be slow. It's eleven eleven, make
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a wish, y'all. It's okay for things to take time.
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The artists said that their exhibit they had been working
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on these poops, these concepts since twenty sixteen, it is
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twenty twenty five, and that they created new artworks for
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this exhibit within the same year, like seven artworks, but
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every single piece is in conversation with each other, but
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they're very different from each other. You see the progression,
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you see the evolution of what this world and what
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these creatures become, and so you know, we all don't
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need permission, but perhaps an affirmation, right. I also wrote
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this on substack creativity through the lens of visual artists.
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Things I learn while I'm workshopping, I be learning. I
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facilitate workshops, but I also get a lot back. Take
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your time. Everything's on fire, some things that should be
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more than others. There's a new world coming, but rushing
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everything doesn't give us a full picture. Repetition, not reputation,
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is devotion, but hey take it how we live.
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Repetition is devotion.
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To the worlds that we create, to the imaginings that
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we have, to the possibilities that we desire. Intuitive creation,
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you don't really got to know fully where the shit's going.
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You will be led eventually through the thing. Follow the
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what if. That's what I always say. Dance through the possibilities,
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have fun, play, follow the awe right, change as the
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flow moves you. The artist was talking about, you know,
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it's been a while since I've done like words and
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used words in my art.
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I think I'm gonna go.
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Do that again, and I think that's also powerful, Like
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I'm gonna revisit this. It feels like it's time to
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do this thing. How many things have we put on
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a shelf or left a draft and never came back
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to and then either it calls back to you or
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it's always in the back of your mind.
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Go go open that thang up.
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What are you losing right Some of us are losing sleep,
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like I should be sleeping right now.
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But it's something to.
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I guess invite into our day to day. Stillness isn't
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stacking it. That's for my therapist a luma be well
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on Instagram. Y'all go be nice to my therapist because
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we'll have a problem if you not. Stillness isn't stagnant.
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It is rhythm beckoning us forth. Sometimes we need the disconnect.
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Sometimes we need the silence. The residency is right, the
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intentional quiet, the moments in a studio, at a keyboard,
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wherever you do your thing, that is dedicated time and space.
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Artists need time to be theirs. There may be do dates.
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I got du dates, but outside of that, most times
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we need to be experienced by the sun. We need
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to let life take us places. We need to engage
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in art. There are things I didn't know that I
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placed a I had a k drama on hold and
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I started watching it during a trip, and I waited
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all this time months to watch this cave drama because
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it gave me the answers to something that I'm working on.
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I was like, oh, this is exactly how this scene.
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Can unfold.
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I didn't realize, but here is the insight that I
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was waiting for.
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Allow ourselves to be in our I know, circadian rhythm
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is for sleep, but like our artistic circadian rhythm, right,
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that's where the magic happens. That's where the magic unfolds.
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Maybe this was useful to you, it was useful to me.
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I'm sitting with that realizing that I gotta allow things
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to unfold, and some things take.
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Longer than I want them to, and everything.
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Does as it needs, and sometimes that feels very vague.
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There's shit to be paid right now, you know, but
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preparent of goes sleep. But sometimes things suffer through the
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systemic man made not lack of resources, but like the
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fabricated restrictions and boxing in of resources. There is so
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much out there, and being in survival mode and in
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the desperation of making things happen steals things from us
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on purpose, And wherever you can allow.
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Yourself the support.
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And reclamation of time, I invite you to do that.
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You can't hope you can't dream, you can't desire when
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persecuted or suffering, and so.
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I don't know.
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Allow things to take time, That's what I will say,
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Allow things to unfold, focus on what is most, what
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is the emergency now, so that thriving and possibility can
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fit somewhere in your life.
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It's a lot of.
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There are some really necessary yet awful things happening. Necessary
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is in the need to resist, the need to say
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that this has not been working for a long time
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and has reached its peak. And this is also the
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time when artists get to work and so stay safe,
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protect each other, and may we all be building towards
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the world that we desire because it fits all of
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us in there.
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When I leave you with that, y'all.
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Definitely combining two different uh thought processes in the episodes together,
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I think if I could do it, and stay tuned
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for an interview that will be happening.
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Next Monday. Thank you, y'all.
