I looooove this! My Dad used to say, "You get paid for what you know." I loooove having multiple streams of income and I so love all the things I do and love. I ignored all that type of advice because I knew how much joy composing, singing, writing, playing instruments, recording arranging, producing, mixing and mastering brings me. I had a great Uncle who said it first, "You have to decide, Are you a guitar player or a singer?" Pffff. I am both. So were so many of my heroes. You get paid for what you know and as I've heard you say, Kate, "Nothing is wasted."
@@katechadbournebard Also, what ever happened to, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket?" How are you supposed to have other means if you don't have other skills? I say follow your passions, and enjoy being you and what you're interested in. They all serve you well because it is the juice of life.
Follow the energy of eagerness- an addition to my arsenal at the ready for when the drab thoughts of ‘master of none’ try to battle me. Thanks for speaking to me, again. I am a coppersmith, apprenticed blacksmith, welder, musician, carver of wood and stone, writer, printmaker and conversationalist.
Oh, how much I love your list of arts!!! You are, like Lugh, Samildanach - many gifted. And that whole "master of none" thing is pure bunk (I heard it, too, and it stung for decades - but we're letting that one go now, right?). Thank you so much for sharing your arts and your spirit!
Awesome encouragement as always Ms. Kate 💚💙💜-- when I have heard that kind of limitation-inducing talk I reflect on how 'Nature' operates, which is nothing short of profligate proliferation (c'mon, choose your life form will you? -- you can't have all of them :) I've also realized that even within what we think of as one identity there are layers and layers -- I've become aware that the methodologies that have been showing up as ways to introduce art-making to people who are unaware of their art-making capabilities are, in themselves, a kind of art form -- even though I'm technically not 'making' art myself in those meetings, it seems that I have, in fact, 'made' something by framing how the process is mediated -- being involved in something creative literally has no boundaries -- it just keeps unfolding . . .
Yes, yes, a thousand times a joyful YES! I am smiling over that remark to Life itself to niche down :) And I couldn't agree more that in helping to open the way for others to claim their artistry we are engaged in the most amazing, far-reaching META art project imaginable. I can't think of anything more exciting! I love knowing that you are painting more life and color into this world through that transcendent art. Beannachtai go deo ort, a chara!
Hello 💚 from beautiful Vancouver Island! I love this conversation, and the encouragement it gives. I almost think that I was more hopeful during Covid than now, and I've had to search why that is. I held the thought during Covid that things would return to 'normal', but they truly haven't. So now, the challenge is to be intentional about creating a 'new normal', as the expression goes. I love concerts, galleries, good movies and books, and other creative happenings, but having a conversation about creativity is truly soul- restoring. As you spoke, a Georgia O'Keefe story came to mind. I'm remembering back to about 17 in Fine Arts. O'Keefe would insist on viewing a gallery show the night before an opening. Solo. She said she neither wanted to be influenced by the criticism she heard-- or the flattery! No one wishes to hear criticism - but flattery? I began to see this, and realized that creativity can be destroyed by flattery because it is a trap. It is a leg hold trap that keeps the creative person doing the same thing over and over with no forward momentum. Flattery always feels good at first, but then it can be ruinous ( sounds like drug use, yes?) I found her quote: 'I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free'. So- even if one finds a 'single lane', the bullies are a challenge (just sometimes they appear as angels of light). I do think that flattery and encouragement are subtly different things. Well--- this got long! :) Thank you.
This is a truly helpful conversation, and I thank you for it. What feels essential to me in my creative life is FREEDOM - and that means dancing lightly away from anything that clings or compels. You've made a great case here that both praise and criticism fit that bill. I love to come back again and again to desire and eagerness. Thank you so much for adding your own soul-restoring voice to this conversation!
Georgia O'Keefe's quote is just what I needed! So often I get seized to a stop when creating something for someone - but I need to toss that thinking out and create for me -- for the enjoyment of my own soul. Kate - thank you for this conversation and wisdom ❣
Hear, hear - I love this expression, thank you! And now that I'm older I wonder about those who wag a finger at the young enthusiast. Who doused their natural fires? Let's spark each other!
I'm a painter and dancer as well as independent researcher and ethnographer- I like looking through the lense of music and dance and food and language and so much more to understand human movement throughout history. I have been collecting stories from old people I know about my culture and olden ways of life and folkore for many years and I have yet to find a way to put it out there. I've worked in education and studied architecture. My path and interests are anything but linear😂. I've loved it so far, but I would also love to be able to take all this multi creative existence and do... something... with it, but I have yet to figure that out. Your videos are a big encouragement btw. I feel at home on your channel ❤
You sound amazing - a whole rainbow of artistry and passion in one person! One thing I feel sure of: you will find a way to share all this wealth that you've created and amassed with others. Wishing you great JOY in the process, and grateful to meet you here!
Kate, I've focused on music for a long time, but over the past few years you'rve opened up the worlds of poetry, story telling, and Irish folklore. In music, my goal has been to enjoy any situation, from solitary songwriting and recording, to the joyful participatory aspects of jamming and performing. I like to seamlessly contribute while repressing my raging ego. Thank you for giving us the OK to create in any ways we'd like to.
@@folkmikedelaney you are a mighty creator, a chara! I’m smiling over your supposedly “raging ego.” 😊 As one was inculcated with dire warnings about never getting a big head, I think a little raging is in order at this stage of the game. You deserve it! Thank you for your kindness.
Yes, it's always struck me as the antithesis of artistic creativity to expect only one medium of expression. To my heart creativity emanates from within/without and the creator may use any medium that best suits the particular impulse. Granted some are good with a single medium but for the multi-passionate (great word btw) such stricture would take the joy out. As a plant only given one nutrient becomes sallow and wilted.
Hear, hear, and I love your metaphor of the artist as a plant who requires many nutrients. What are they? Freedom, time to explore and ponder, community, authenticity, and always eagerness to be practicing and growing. And yes, my friend, to the JOY. Thank you so much for your thoughts and words and presence!
I looooove this! My Dad used to say, "You get paid for what you know." I loooove having multiple streams of income and I so love all the things I do and love. I ignored all that type of advice because I knew how much joy composing, singing, writing, playing instruments, recording arranging, producing, mixing and mastering brings me. I had a great Uncle who said it first, "You have to decide, Are you a guitar player or a singer?" Pffff. I am both. So were so many of my heroes. You get paid for what you know and as I've heard you say, Kate, "Nothing is wasted."
You ARE both and so much more! I love your clarity and your passion for being all that you are. Thank you for this gust of energy!
@@katechadbournebard Also, what ever happened to, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket?" How are you supposed to have other means if you don't have other skills? I say follow your passions, and enjoy being you and what you're interested in. They all serve you well because it is the juice of life.
Follow the energy of eagerness- an addition to my arsenal at the ready for when the drab thoughts of ‘master of none’ try to battle me. Thanks for speaking to me, again. I am a coppersmith, apprenticed blacksmith, welder, musician, carver of wood and stone, writer, printmaker and conversationalist.
Oh, how much I love your list of arts!!! You are, like Lugh, Samildanach - many gifted. And that whole "master of none" thing is pure bunk (I heard it, too, and it stung for decades - but we're letting that one go now, right?). Thank you so much for sharing your arts and your spirit!
Thank you for affirming that I want to follow my creativity and let it flow through me❤
@@TPforangie I’m so glad. Let it flow! ❤️
Awesome encouragement as always Ms. Kate 💚💙💜-- when I have heard that kind of limitation-inducing talk I reflect on how 'Nature' operates, which is nothing short of profligate proliferation (c'mon, choose your life form will you? -- you can't have all of them :) I've also realized that even within what we think of as one identity there are layers and layers -- I've become aware that the methodologies that have been showing up as ways to introduce art-making to people who are unaware of their art-making capabilities are, in themselves, a kind of art form -- even though I'm technically not 'making' art myself in those meetings, it seems that I have, in fact, 'made' something by framing how the process is mediated -- being involved in something creative literally has no boundaries -- it just keeps unfolding . . .
Yes, yes, a thousand times a joyful YES! I am smiling over that remark to Life itself to niche down :) And I couldn't agree more that in helping to open the way for others to claim their artistry we are engaged in the most amazing, far-reaching META art project imaginable. I can't think of anything more exciting! I love knowing that you are painting more life and color into this world through that transcendent art. Beannachtai go deo ort, a chara!
Hello 💚 from beautiful Vancouver Island!
I love this conversation, and the encouragement it gives. I almost think that I was more hopeful during Covid than now, and I've had to search why that is. I held the thought
during Covid that things would return to 'normal', but they truly haven't. So now, the challenge is to be intentional about creating a 'new normal', as the expression goes. I love
concerts, galleries, good movies and books, and other creative happenings, but having a conversation about creativity is truly soul- restoring.
As you spoke, a Georgia O'Keefe story came to mind. I'm remembering back to about 17 in
Fine Arts. O'Keefe would insist on viewing a gallery show the night before an opening. Solo.
She said she neither wanted to be influenced by the criticism she heard-- or the flattery! No one wishes to hear criticism - but flattery? I began to see this, and realized that creativity can be destroyed by flattery because it is a trap. It is a leg hold trap that keeps the creative person doing the same thing over and over with no forward momentum. Flattery always feels good at first, but then it can be ruinous ( sounds like drug use, yes?)
I found her quote: 'I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free'.
So- even if one finds a 'single lane', the bullies are a challenge (just sometimes they appear as angels of light). I do think that flattery and encouragement are subtly different things.
Well--- this got long! :) Thank you.
This is a truly helpful conversation, and I thank you for it. What feels essential to me in my creative life is FREEDOM - and that means dancing lightly away from anything that clings or compels. You've made a great case here that both praise and criticism fit that bill. I love to come back again and again to desire and eagerness. Thank you so much for adding your own soul-restoring voice to this conversation!
Georgia O'Keefe's quote is just what I needed! So often I get seized to a stop when creating something for someone - but I need to toss that thinking out and create for me -- for the enjoyment of my own soul. Kate - thank you for this conversation and wisdom ❣
A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” is so true.....
So much love 🌺
Hear, hear - I love this expression, thank you! And now that I'm older I wonder about those who wag a finger at the young enthusiast. Who doused their natural fires? Let's spark each other!
@@katechadbournebard 💯
Sewing, Drawing and painting ❤
Wonderful! ❤️
Right now I am eager for ice cream!
That eagerness is catching! :)
I'm a painter and dancer as well as independent researcher and ethnographer- I like looking through the lense of music and dance and food and language and so much more to understand human movement throughout history. I have been collecting stories from old people I know about my culture and olden ways of life and folkore for many years and I have yet to find a way to put it out there. I've worked in education and studied architecture. My path and interests are anything but linear😂. I've loved it so far, but I would also love to be able to take all this multi creative existence and do... something... with it, but I have yet to figure that out. Your videos are a big encouragement btw. I feel at home on your channel ❤
You sound amazing - a whole rainbow of artistry and passion in one person! One thing I feel sure of: you will find a way to share all this wealth that you've created and amassed with others. Wishing you great JOY in the process, and grateful to meet you here!
Kate, I've focused on music for a long time, but over the past few years you'rve opened up the worlds of poetry, story telling, and Irish folklore. In music, my goal has been to enjoy any situation, from solitary songwriting and recording, to the joyful participatory aspects of jamming and performing. I like to seamlessly contribute while repressing my raging ego. Thank you for giving us the OK to create in any ways we'd like to.
@@folkmikedelaney you are a mighty creator, a chara! I’m smiling over your supposedly “raging ego.” 😊 As one was inculcated with dire warnings about never getting a big head, I think a little raging is in order at this stage of the game. You deserve it! Thank you for your kindness.
Yes, it's always struck me as the antithesis of artistic creativity to expect only one medium of expression. To my heart creativity emanates from within/without and the creator may use any medium that best suits the particular impulse.
Granted some are good with a single medium but for the multi-passionate (great word btw) such stricture would take the joy out. As a plant only given one nutrient becomes sallow and wilted.
Hear, hear, and I love your metaphor of the artist as a plant who requires many nutrients. What are they? Freedom, time to explore and ponder, community, authenticity, and always eagerness to be practicing and growing. And yes, my friend, to the JOY. Thank you so much for your thoughts and words and presence!
🌺 beautiful
Thank you so much! ♥