An artist must choose to shun acceptable behavior, political correctness, and the comforts of the commonplace to truly exist in the spacetime of their genius. Playing it safe is like painting by numbers, stealing a riff, using pitch correction, obeying the clock, failing, failing again, and then giving up; it’s pandering to the normals and ignoring what the world desperately needs from us.
Trance Blackman Posts
At some point, we all realize that the weight we carry isn’t entirely our own, and the patterns we follow aren’t always of our design. As children, we lived in the freedom to explore, to wonder, to leap without looking. But somewhere along the way, the world taught us to conform. Now, as the tide shifts and the foundations we’ve built on begin to crack, we are called to reconnect with that childlike curiosity — that raw, unfiltered sense of adventure.
Truth is the pricker of thin skin; authenticity lets the blood flow. Face your dark, beautiful self. Embrace him. Let her go. These shadows are…
Play on, you symphony of madness. Blast the horns counter to the rhythm, rake the strings with angst and anxiety. Pound the timpani with closed…
There’s a quiet force in the still moments we often overlook as life pulses around us. It’s easy to be swept up in the noise — chasing what’s next, or clinging to what’s past. Yet the deeper truths lie in the pauses, in the spaces between thoughts, where the heart beats unencumbered.