Big Lo Interview on the Groundwater Podcast and reflections on keeping an audio-diary.

Listening back and hearing how closed off I was to co-sponsorships during this interview was striking for me to hear.  I was extra closed off to not only that idea, but also several other valid ways of approaching the world.   

One of the original intentions behind creating this podcast was the daydream that it would act as a kind of audio-diary.  I wanted to chronicle the adventures of a life focused on creating and sharing art.  Answer the big questions!  How do we art?  How does it feel when you’re art-ing?  How do we art better?  What does it all mean?     

Part of the fun of keeping a diary is reading back and really seeing your thoughts.  Perspective is everything. 

And like a diary, I listen back and hear who I was then.  When I look in the mirror now, I see a different person. At first, I wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.  It might just be a thing and I don’t have to attribute meaning. 

But then I thought… nah… this is good. The inconsistencies in my tone are a good thing.  It shows growth.  I realize I’m being vague here.  By tone, I might mean ego.  Probably.  You’d have to listen to hear exactly what I’m talking about. 

I guess what I’m trying to say is if I was a shape, I now have rounder edges than I used to.  I’m not quite a circle yet, but I’m definitely not as triangle-y.  Thoughts don’t have as many opposites as they used to.

I used to ask every guest about the difference between art and entertainment.  Now I think the distinction between the two doesn’t serve me like it used to.  I no longer need to find the line in my head and figure out on which side something falls.  For a bunch of stuff.

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