For a long time, creative practice felt like an endless race of making, producing, and immediately sharing. We look at beautiful, established feeds and feel the pressure to already be at the finish line. But what if the pressure to perform is simply the wrong expectation?
In my new video, Beyond Making: How to Curate Art to Find Your Signature Style, I am closing the gap between doingand seeing. Coming off the back of my 100-day project, surrounded by over a thousand small gelli plate prints, I realized something crucial: developing a signature style isn’t about hoping an aesthetic will magically appear one day.
Style is the sum of conscious choices.
It requires stepping into the posture of an artist—the Künstlerin-Haltung. It means acting as if you take your creative desires seriously, not because every piece you make is a masterpiece, but because your daily work is the material you build upon. Each piece is simply a stepping stone to the next.
I invite you to take a breath, step back from the printing plate, and look closely at what you’ve already created. What patterns emerge? What feels like you?
Watch the full video below to explore my simple two-step process for archiving and curating your work.
🌿 If you’d like to dive deeper into this reflective approach, I’ve put together a small guide on my „Staying, Time & Direction“ methodology. You can download it for free here