It's never finished
I don’t need to tie myself in knots wondering if I’ve finished my creative task perfectly.
At some stage, I need to give my work to the world. It’s a gift that has no value until it’s given.
It’s worth realising that no matter how much time and energy I’ve spent, the gift is never finished as it leaves my hands. I have just been part of that idea’s journey. It had come from somewhere in some form before it arrived with me, and now its fate lies with someone else.
The next part of the journey is to do with the receiver. How do they receive and interpret the gift? How does it change them and how do they change it?
Something about that gift, that thing that I had a hand in, will now be passed on to another. Perhaps it will be re-gifted in the same form. Perhaps it will be transformed - something will be added or subtracted before it is passed on. Or maybe the artefact of the gift will stay with this receiver but the spirit of it will spark an idea, an action, a new creation that will flow through them.
🎧 Kayle Clements explains why he quit music and the long and winding path he traveled before becoming a Production Music Library Composer. [PS. His music has had coffee with Jerry Seinfeld.]
Ep 46 Kayle Clements — The Long and Winding Path
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