Your Innate Sense of Curiosity is Noticed and Appreciated.

You’ve written your email into an inbox, a stranger’s inbox, in the hopes to find out more about me, and/or to learn from me. “Don’t speak to strangers” doesn’t apply to you. You have realized, or will come to realize, the only way to transcend from stranger to friend is through the initial spark of curiosity. You’ve approached with curiosity and with that, I am truly grateful.

My Name is Matt Piper.

I am an artist. My medium of choice is acting, and I explore stories and characters that mirror our world today to create: Empathy ➡ Action ➡ Positive Change.

My work rests on a spiritual foundation, and I am inspired by spirits, the ether, Gods and Goddesses, and my own labyrinth of a soul. I believe that I am deeply responsible for what speaks to and through me and my work does not happen without a communion with higher power. I am a collaborative medium to tell the story, mission, and message shared between myself and the spirit.

I intentionally practice self-improvement and conscious self-destruction to create and expand upon my own life. I have made many positive changes in my life, while I continue to work on other negatives swinging on a pendulum of self-improvement, but one that moves its foundation upward with every swing. I offer the findings of my personal experiments on the self to those around me to hopefully, slowly but surely, transform the world into something far more positive and beautiful than we ever thought possible.

But also, in contrast, I do not see myself as an authority in any form. I see myself as a guide, not a teacher. One who plants signs throughout his trail and leaves “at least that’s what happened to me” written as postscript. “Perhaps” is perhaps my favorite word, in it intends a subjective experience to the reader, and especially when it comes to craft, our subject matter will be subjective.

I like to open the scary basement doors. I live to make mistakes and overcome inadequacies that are generally left unsaid and hidden.

For years I’ve been discovering myself through self-help, modern and classical psychology and therapy, the art of acting, athletics, health and wellness, spirituality, and quite simply, life. And I will continue this journey until the day that I die. I’ve titled this journey:

My Journey Toward Artistic and Spiritual Freedom.

I am both the river and the rock. I am the river that forms the rock and I am the rock that is formed. I am the rock, inversely, forming the river, and I am the river being formed.

My pursuit is to be truly free. To create whatever, whenever, however, and with whatever. I will never wait for an agent, or casting director, or director to call me to allow me to work. As a truly free artist, I am never waiting for work, I am always working and developing whatever inspires me. I am forever allowing myself the opportunity to commune with the spirit of creation without anyone’s permission. Mind you, though there’s progress, I must continue forward in the journey.

What You’ll Be Receiving.

There are two tiers: 

 FREE and PAID.

For my free subscribers, you will receive an email from me every Monday which tends to be a little update. Sometimes it becomes a narrative or philosophical musings. It’s really whatever is on my mind at the given time.

I always aim to provide you with value, something to take away. Most of the time I’m constantly working through something myself and these are a way for me to work these things out.

For Those Who Wish to Support Further.

If you are subscribed there’s an option for you to upgrade your plan and support me and my art and the creation of incredible art further.

I have created three separate sections of curiosity throughout the week that you can get sent directly to your inbox when you upgrade as a member. Here’s what you’ll get.

• CRAFT - the arts

• HEALTH AND WELLNESS

• SPIRITUALITY

Here’s what you’ll get when you upgrade:

Upgrading your membership will support me in several ways:

• PLATFORM AND SUBSCRIPTION COSTS: I can further afford to utilize Beehiiv as my newsletter platform of choice, which has been expanding rapidly. In terms of the quality and freedom I have to create my own work and share incredible work with you, it’s superior to every platform I’ve looked into.

• TRAINING AND CLASSES: As someone who continuously learns and builds upon the self, I love to learn, and learning from teachers and guides are important to me. I genuinely want to seek out the best to iterate and reiterate upon myself, producing new experiments to make phenomenal work, always.

• STUDENT LOANS: Getting my head above water. Along with the money I make at my day job as a server, most of my money is going to debts I have to pay down from college. It can be fairly debilitating, but the more I get free of the debt the more energy and money I can spend toward my craft.

• FOCUS ON MY CRAFT: I spend hours, days, and months on my art. The time I put into my art is non-negotiable, it allows time to listen and avoid creating something for speed. This will allow me time to listen and create work beyond what I am capable of even now.

• PAYING THOSE I COLLABORATE WITH: I plan on producing projects, and I plan to collaborate. It’s important to me to pay these people as money to me buys time, (both a construct) and money can be given to the artist to acquire time to the project at hand.

Your subscription matters to me. Whether you subscribe for free or not you are supporting me. I’m deeply grateful you’re here.

Thank You

Thank you for taking the first step forward in your curiosity to make a stranger a friend. I hope that I can inspire you to join along in your own journey toward artistic and spiritual freedom.

You’re invited. Invited to embark on your own path. Invited to grow alongside like-minded individuals who aim to support you as you grow.

This newsletter is a transference of ideas, a dilution of thoughts, and an intentional crafting of communication and storytelling of the journey that I am on to inspire you to take a journey for yourself. Discovering that which is truly yours.

Again, I wish to thank you for your initial curiosity. I hope to continue building this relationship between us and continuing growth toward development and artistic and spiritual freedom.