i have recently come to realize that i am an artist. that’s what i do…yet, i’ve noticed a great deal of frustration around this label. it’s been quite the challenge for me to own being an artist and also live with the fact that in order to activate my ‘artist’ship, i need other artists to participate.
talk about surrender…
i’m coming to the conclusion that in surrendering to music, i am also surrendering to needing other people. that’s a hard one to swallow…because what it means is that in order to do what i’ve been sent here to do, i need other people…
i am like an inert gas that needs some other element (i didn’t study chemistry in college…so don’t hate, go with the metaphor) to activate itself…
now that’s true surrender.
so…with this realization,
i am choosing to make music with other musicians. to collaborate. to co-create. i don’t want to be the ‘monique debose’ show although my ego sometimes disagrees with that…
ideally, i’d love it if i connected with three amazing musicians who were on the same page that i’m on.
*we wanted to make music because it felt good to us and we knew it was a part of our journey here.
* we were totally down with getting the music out to the world (as large an audience possible) because we knew when people heard the music and experienced the connection the four of us had to each other, the music and soul, they wouldn’t be able to resist it.
*we loved bouncing ideas off of each other and had a real commitment to creating and exploring together.
that’s what i am talking about…man, just writing it feels great.
that’s my first topic of discussion.
peace.
