The Artist is Not Their Art – Why It’s Impossible to Separate Yourself From Your Outcomes & Why You Have To
In life there are many aspects that play into how everything comes together as needed. Culturally, we like to separate the ARTIST from the ART. But in reality, this is impossible to do.
We can't separate the person who generated something from what they have outputted —
the generator and the generated are intertwined, but the are never the same.
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We use the words “generate”, “generator” and “generation” interchangable with the words “create”, “creator” and “creation”
The Clean
Definition
Of This
Phrase
Everything is energetically stamped by the person who made it. We prefer not to think about this, though, because we do not want to deal with the underlying truth. We want to continue with our lives, go our merry way, and not be bothered with something that will wobble our perception. If something disturbs how we see ourselves, we may become insecure about who we actually are, and this may cause huge destabilization. This would highlight the fact that what we think is true, really is not so.
There is a true, clean version of the cultural misnomer, “separate the artist from the art”, which we will discuss today. The artist is not their art at any point, but the energy of the art is defined by the artist, and we can’t remove that fact.
Many artists, creatives and makers get confused about this. The mama bear is not her child; the apple tree is not its apples. The art is an extension built on the energy that the artist holds and runs in their own system. If the apple tree got confused and thought that it suddenly was its apples, this would also mean that the apple tree would likely get confused about all the new trees that would arrive next season. The original apple tree is not anything other than itself, and the new trees are nothing but themselves.
As a maker you are not anything other than you — not your books, your paintings, your music, your design, your clothes, your sculptures, your DJ sets, your constructions, your buildings, your apps, your software programs, etc. However (and this is a major point)…
…you are energetically responsible for what you generate in at all times.
This is because the apples’ energy are based on the energy held by the apple tree. The energy you have within is going to dictate the quality of everything that you ever have or will ever generate.
You, Your Art,
Commoditizing
the Art &
The Confusion
That Is Causing
The Whole
Mess
Your energy determines what you produce — not the other way around. This is something that can’t be separated. As with many other aspects in our physical reality, this is very tight-knit, but it still does not mean that these aspects are the exact same thing. Let me explain: you are made up of a certain amount of energy. By running this energy, you can expand and make things (generate) into physical form. This means that your fundamental energy can produce itself into new additional shapes that we experience as new physical objects. However, it is important to note that the newly produced energy does not belong to the same structure as you. There are now two geometrical shapes which are separate from each other, constructed by the same quality of energy — the artist and the art, the apple tree and the apples. They are linked, as you can see — but they are never the same thing.
Many artists get their understanding of who they are confused with what they make.
They are unable to separate the two, because their own fundamental shape is not solid enough to hold the energy that they actually are producing—they are not great at holding their own framework together. In our culture we define this as “not being good at setting boundaries”. In order to run energy as a masterful creative, we must have an exact shape to run that specific energy in.
If the shape that is you is not distinguished, you are going to think that “the real you” is a part of other structures that are around you (including the objects and relationships that you generate). This is a huge issue that we see everywhere in society. People are blending left and right with their art pieces, products, services, and performances. When they then commodify these, they are literally selling a piece of themselves, a piece of their undefined shape (which made its way into the product or service) in exchange for money.
This is highly inefficient, and we are not supposed to commodify in this way. When you continually dilute your own fundamental structure, you will at some point have nothing left. If each time you sold an apple, you also sold a couple of branches here and threw along some pieces of your trunk, at some point you will not be able to produce any new apples and you will not remain a beautiful, vibrant tree that can do what trees do best — be a tree.
The Importance
of Pin-pointing
Your Form
As a maker, we have to understand where our own form is at: what it feels like, what the sensation of it is, and what functions your form operates with. If we want to be great at forming physicalness — a song, a poem, a shoe, a piece of furniture, a cosmetic, a text and so on — we also must understand where we are located in physical reality. This is because everything that we generate in, is the physical expansion of us.
If we want our music to impact people greatly, our energy has to be great as well. The energy, however, does not only have to be great; we also must run a version of it in our system that is clean and of high quality. When our personal energy is detrimental, we will also produce art, products, and services that are hugely detrimental; this in turn also causes detriment to the experiencer. Nobody wins with this kind of energy.
We must be internally aligned with what we want to reflect outward; if we want to generate great physical forms, we must first master how to run all the energy inside of ourselves.
“As a maker, you are not anything other than you — not your books, your paintings, your music, your design, your clothes, your sculptures, your DJ sets, your constructions, your buildings, your apps, your software programs, etc. “
words and artwork by Kissey Asplund
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Kissey Asplund is a creative consultant specializing in the process of generation & creative subatomic energy. She is the founder of the creative wellness hub Generation Watts, and has gained international recognition as a music producer, multi-disciplinary artist and DJ. Her journey of researching how to use meditation to enhance creativity began at 17. Today, she teaches others how to connect to their inner superpower and hone their creative-mastery. Learn more about her virtual creative consulting service: The Equation Sessions™
