Making Things When No One Is Watching

Some of the most important things I’ve made, no one ever saw.

They lived in notebooks. In unfinished folders.

In ideas that never left the room they were born in.

For a long time, I saw that as failure.

Now, I see it as practice.

We live in a time where creativity feels incomplete unless it’s witnessed. Shared. Liked. Saved. Measured. But not everything we make is meant for an audience. Some things exist purely to teach us how to listen to ourselves again.

I make and curate things when no one is watching because it reminds me that creativity isn’t performance. If my icloud storage of designs could speak! Well they do to me anyway.

It’s conversation.

A quiet one, between me and whatever is trying to emerge.

There’s a freedom in creating without the pressure of outcomes. No metrics. No expectations. No version of yourself you’re trying to maintain. Just curiosity, honesty, and time.

These private acts of making are what shape the public work. They are the roots you don’t see, but everything depends on.

If you feel stuck creatively, ask yourself: When was the last time you made something just to see if you could?

Not to sell it.

Not to post it.

Not to explain it.

Just to remember how it feels to begin.

Love

#CarmenGoCreative