Often we as artists ask ourselves what we’re building, what cohesive story are we working towards? Charli XCX talks about an artist’s mythos, about the space they inhabit and the world they create, how all your work should interact with each other.

I’ve always been drawn to artists who have a strong sense of self - not that they don’t evolve or change as they age, but they seem to create something so inherently them that you cannot doubt who made their work. Distinct artists with a “brand,” sure, but it’s more than just a cohesive marketing technique. It’s an immortalization of the self, forever changing with the seasons, in a way that tells one’s life story.

I long to be that kind of artist, someone who documents and creates her self every time they make something.

So, maybe I’ve spent decades of my life trying to map my own soul. I define my Self every time I take a photograph, every time I write a story, every time I connect with a fictional character or feel seen by a film or relate to the lyrics of a song. I write lists and lists and lists of all the people I wish I could be, all the people I have been, and it is at that intersection that I find my truest self.