OWN IT!

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.” – Carl Jung

Today’s post is read by the AI-generated version of The S N DOUBLE OH P, The D OH Double Gee Y, to the D OH DOUBLE G.

I updated my profile the other day to state, “I am the new Jean Dubuffet.” He’s my favourite artist, you see. He started his art career later in life, like me (at age 41), he boldly experimented, and ended up creating the ‘Art Brut movement’.

I was posting one of my reels on Instagram the other day and chose the Jay Z song “Picasso Baby” because the artwork I was sharing was called “Fighting with Picasso.”

The reel starts…

“It ain’t hard to tell. I’m the new Jean Michel. Surrounded by Warhols. My whole team ball. Twin Bugattis outside the Art Basel”.🎶

A while back, I mentioned I had a few free coaching sessions around my art business, and I finally declared that “I am the modern-day Jean Dubuffet.”

It didn’t feel conceited. It didn’t feel forced. It felt plausible, normal.

I already know how I started my art career late like Dubuffet did, and he embraced his own style, as I do. So it’s not like me saying “I’m the new Leonardo Da Vinci” as that wouldn’t feel right. It would feel like a barefaced lie, I’m not a fan of the phrase “Fake it til you make it” although I am an advocate of stepping out of your comfort zone.

As soon as I added this to my Substack profile and the start of the blurb for Cream of the Crop, my Substack publication, it felt real. Like a declaration, I say therefore I am. I am that I am.

You are responsible for how you present yourself in this world. You decide who you are, whether it be through your writing, your art, or your branding. No one else will permit you; you have to give yourself permission!

Look at Ali, he wasn’t shy about saying he was the greatest! You don’t have to go to his level, but just own who you are, even if you are fully letting go of pretence and being yourself.