💌 Why I create (and why you should too)

Using art to self-express, memento mori and not following the herd online

Hi friends & new subscribers,

Last week, I visited a local art gallery (AGO) in downtown Toronto.

I'm not a museum person and can't appreciate traditional art like paintings and sculptures like other artists do. I went because I needed to kill some time, and I thought it would be 'good content' for the weekly vlog I was filming for YouTube.

My theme was: it's okay if you don't know where you're going. Just keep following your instincts.

Lo and behold, that tiny visit to the gallery gave me so much insight into why I create online.

Obviously, it didn't happen suddenly like in the movies.

I went inside the gallery, thinking I'd leave after half an hour as I explored the abstract paintings that had no meaning to me.

But the more I took my time to read the descriptions and try to understand what each work was about, I realized that each artist was trying to express themselves in their own way. They were trying to communicate something you couldn't do in words but needed to do it with paintings a…