A Reflection on The Artist/Creator Archetype

One Month Studying, and Applying.

Author

Matt Piper
August 21, 2023

Spending a month with a particular portion of the self offers insight into much more than you would initially think. The work I’ve put into The Artist has rewarded me with so much. This being a self-reflective journey in my path toward this book, my acting career, and also the entirety of the journey through soul, self, and ego, I wanted to take this moment to recall and reflect on what I’ve learned and say goodbye to The Artist for now as I move onto my next Archetype.

What I Learned

I felt like I was just getting to discover The Artist as we got to the end of the month. As I explored I noticed many aspects that I didn’t expect in The Artist. The most important thing I could learn was that this archetype isn’t always making something tangible. They are not always making something to be shown to the world in a form of a product. In fact, The Artist has an alternate name, The Creator. I kept forgetting this fact, and throughout the month, I would miss important expressions of The Creator. It was more in hindsight that I began to notice how The Artist/Creator was showing up for me:

  • The creation of this entire process

  • Idea creation and exploration, the creation and opening of different paths, and the decision to follow a particular one.

  • Stepping up in my day-to-day life to create something new with friendships and relationships

  • Discovering more that art and capitalism, in theory, is a complete dichotomy and is like forcing a circle into a square-shaped hole.

As I continued my exploration into this person I grew to learn that they weren’t just there to help me as an actor, or even as a storyteller, they were there to help me with the creation of this entire process. I could tap into my Artist/Creator to produce a sort of flow that favors creative capabilities, something that makes decisions on the fly, plays with them, tosses them around, and being attentive to where you land begins you on a further creative process.

Some More Moments With The Artist/Creator

Do you remember this conversation I was having with The Artist?

A - The Artist

M - Matt

A: Right. With this effrort we’ll create a solid foundation for you to strive upon as we go about your travels into the unknown. I think striving to go toward the people you know the archetypes you know more and then allowing the discovery into something important. thrgouh each of them. Name the gift that each of us give you, and bea ble to find aa way to communicate how you came about each one each gift. So continue spending time with me, and I’ll be able to tell you a lot about myself, but I thin. I can also really help you out here.

M: thank you, thank you for that, I believe you, I’ll simply show up then in that case. I do agree, we are at time crunch when it comes to the creation of social media, so I’ll begin shooting and recording next week to begin creating as many things as ppossible for the coming week ahead. We’ll figure out how I can best utilize the tools and equipnment that I have. Whgat if you were a ********

I’ll let you read the rest…

Whgat if you were a writer?

A: Matt……. YES!Let’s work on writing a short story instead. That is exaqctly what you are working toward and is something that also aligns with me, I think this too I think you should write a script and I think you should shoot it. I think you should make it a short film about the artist. I think you should make it my story and what I’m struggling with. I think you should read into how to write a story. This is energetic within uyou I sense that. I see that. Then this is it

[…]

M: I feel fantastic, this feels aligned with what we’re going to be working on. […]. Thank you for your help today. Welp there we have it, when I paused the fucking timer, look at this

That just further confirmed that I was in the right spot. I just located this spiritual pocket that was extremely energetic, and that’s usually, for me, a sign that I’m headed in the right direction.

Also, you’ll see I looked up the meaning, I don’t know much about angel numbers, but I believe in all sorts of powers and signs and symbols in this universe. 555 means that change is coming. Change has been occurring

The Work Between The Artist/Creator and I

So in about a week’s time, my Artist/Creator and I made a short story based on a dream I had a long time ago. Reckon, I don’t feel ready to put it out there yet, I want to take my time with the concept and build the characters quite a bit more, but we got the entirety of the first draft done so that’s a significant success.

I’ve never done something like that before, ever. It’s interesting though because of how much I’ve been writing now, however, making a complete story is daunting for me. The opening, the climax, the conclusion, all of these aspects I’ve always been afraid of and it kept me from making any story. This was definitely quite the challenge but I just thought to myself;

I can either share this or not. This is allowed to be shit and even if I send it out and people think so, it’s simply information. If I enjoy this then I’m heading in the right direction.

I think it’s a very scary process to be an Artist/Creator. Many people sit in uncertainty with the work that they do, the only authority I have is my own experience and the most straightforward way I can put this is; to take the pressure off and expect shit work in the beginning. But then the patience to see that work through all the way to the end. To clean, to rearrange, to manifest, to dream, to walk, to see, to place, to step way way way back to view, to edit.

There’s so much content in this world, so much to consume and so much being put out there. I think we live in an Artist/Creator world right now, but still, I believe good art truly stands out. What’s good? To me, my view is something that is speaking directly from the soul of the creator, something that is shaped and formed with time and intentional energy. Something that is given space to breathe.

Saying Goodbye to the Artist/Creator

We’ve officially ended the first month for our first Archetype, I’m really excited to continue studying and simply allow information to process. Thank you for reading, thank you for subscribing and I hope to continue building more information in the form of my own self-reflective journey. I’ll be offering more information as we go, and there’s even more information I’m quite interested in that I might share as well.

Thank you to you and The Artist/Creator, We’ll chat next week.

Much love today and every day

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