I talked to The Creative Independent about making art 🫶

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I was just remembering when Hanif Abdurraqib shouted out my 4th grade son's writing on IG stories, and my very proud kid told his friends that a 'real writer' liked *his* writing 🥲

I 🩷 the women in my life

Today on TCI ✨🌺🌱

'I've been on this journey for a while now...I had so much frustration at first about like, 'When is this going to translate? When is someone going to recognize this in the way I need them to?''

- Sabrina Brier

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I had the greatest pleasure of discussing sobriety and music and such with a big inspiration of mine, Andy Shauf (Andy Shauf) for TCI (@thecreativeindp) 🌀 .

Here’s to being kind to your future self! 🥂(mocktail)

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today saw someone on the subway crying. they stopped, wiped their eyes, took a selfie with a smiling face, and started crying again.

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'[Sometimes my process is] something that works from my subconscious. From not thinking at all. Being in the moment and not censoring yourself. Whatever you feel, try to express it.'

- Bolis Pupul (Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul)

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I have only two emotions: careful fear and dead devotion.

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'Life is too short to just be productive all the time.'

- Vanessa Chan (Vanessa Chan)

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'You can be a complete isolationist loner in what you do and that is still valid and cool. It doesn’t mean your music is uncreative or unfulfilling. It’s just different.'

- ● Will Wiesenfeld ●

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'You can be a complete isolationist loner in what you do and that is still valid and cool. It doesn’t mean your music is uncreative or unfulfilling. It’s just different.'

- ● Will Wiesenfeld ●

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'The idea of trying to accomplish as much as I can with as little as possible is a very comfortable state of being for me.'

— Will Wiesenfeld (● Will Wiesenfeld ●)

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I’ve thought about this more during the day & have come to the conclusion that this is actually none of our business & I feel slight sympathy towards the horny fungus bugs who seem to be coping with a lot on top of having their personal desires & struggles aired out like this

this is beautiful.