Personal creative work.

I know it sounds like a made up thing.

Creativity is meant to be fun, freeing… fulfilling? But when you work in a creative field, it can be hard to shut off the business side of your brain. When I looked at what I wanted in my business this year, it was evolution.

Fresh creativity, new perspectives, reaching further into moments.

So I decided to take on a 2023 challenge!

It’s my own challenge, and I can almost guarantee I will fail at parts of it. That’s ok, though. This challenge isn’t meant for perfection; it’s meant for creation.

Step 1. Make it personal

A series of self-portraits. Seeing myself from new angles and perspectives. Looking at myself in a new light. As an aside, its interesting editing photos of myself. I’ll talk more about that in the coming months, I’m sure.

Step 2: Use a creative eye

Each shoot needs to have a creative theme or element for me to practice. The truth is, these photos did not go as planned. I wanted to work on a specific lighting style and 20 minutes into my attempted, including trial and error, I decided to scratch that plan. I was getting interesting work, even thought it wasn’t what I planned. I’ll head back to that original idea in the future!

Step 3: Make it work *said in a Ru Paul voice*

I’m going all in on these. I don’t know that I’ll be able to successfully complete a shoot each month but any that I do create will have my heart fully in it! Hope you’ll follow along. 🖤