WHY YOU SHOULD CREATE ART IN 2026
and MY CREATIVE GOALS
As artists, this is what we do.
We make stuff.
The beauty of making stuff is simple and profound: you can use your body and mind to bring a vision into existence. You can engage fully in a creative process. You can shape a small, contained piece of meaning. Something finished. Something that becomes tangible.
Every creative work is an amalgam—your skills, your taste, your limitations, your history. It carries threads of lineage and influence, fragments of genre, echoes of the people who came before you. It’s connected to something much larger.
For me, this work has intrinsic value. I’m creating because I believe in making artistic statements that express inner truth. I have no interest in being cool, trendy, or “with the times.” I want to express my own experience—and speak to an audience that wants the same.
This year, I’ve chosen my mediums.
I’m planning to:
write and produce five original songs (what we used to call an EP when I was coming up),
release eight podcast episodes, and
publish at least ten blog posts.
That’s it.
It feels manageable. And that’s intentional.
I’m focusing on output, not perfection. I could ruminate forever—on tone, on gear, on wording, on whether a choice is “right.” But I don’t believe that growth happens that way. Growth happens in finishing things. In declaring something done and putting it into the world.
Feedback is part of that loop. Not because it defines the work, but because it contextualizes it. It connects you to a cross-section of people who share your values, your sensibility, your way of seeing. It also connects you with people that don’t share your values - and that feedback can be interesting too.
For me, this process is detached from material or financial need. Alongside this process, I’ll likely be running a performing arts center, seeing clients as a therapist, and doing other freelance music work. Consistency, steadiness, and balance are the only way this works. It’s not a “hustle” or a “grind”—it’s a practice.
By sharing this publicly, I’m also embracing something else: accountability.
My newest works are shared on this page:
So here’s my challenge to you:
name your creative goals for the year. Put them into the world. Join me in the process.