Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

The Art Reveals The Artist: What Are You Revealing to the World?

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 20

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Dare to envision art as a mirror? This episode is a journey into the realm of self-expression and the transformative potential of art. We unpack how music and art serve as emotional conduits, and how our creative output is a tangible manifestation of our energy. Let's explore how art can be our personal alchemist, transforming our inner realm into a symphony of color and rhythm. Just imagine how the world would look if we consciously channeled our energy into creative ventures, using artistry to paint our stories, presence, and impact.

Ever wondered how your life would change if you embraced the highs and lows with equal gusto? We get candid about the concept of 'living lucky', and how a balanced life can be both calming and invigorating. Balance isn't stagnation; it's the quiet caress of peace in the midst of chaos. Reflecting on our actions, the energy we emit, and how we show up in the world, we delve into the surprising power of self-awareness. Join us as we share insights into how your achievements mirror your roots, and how you can channel this understanding towards your personal growth. Together, let's embrace the rollercoaster that is life, and find joy in the ordinary.

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky. Good morning, I'm Jenna, I'm Jason and we are living lucky. I hope you are too. The art reveals the artist.

Speaker 2:

Unicorns and rainbows Lucky charms.

Speaker 1:

Where did you see this? Tell me how this topic came about.

Speaker 2:

So I feel like this is just something that someone said when I was at passion camp with all the kids and they were talking about. When you listen to an Ed Sheeran song, when you listen to Prince, when you see like a Picasso or a Dolly, you can kind of feel what the artist was feeling at the time through their medium.

Speaker 1:

You know it's funny you bring that up because whenever I would read books growing up, my dad would always say, read about the author and kind of read what they were going through at the time when they wrote the book.

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh, that's a good growling poem.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, what were they experiencing? Why did this come up at this time?

Speaker 2:

That's next level parenting right there.

Speaker 1:

Right, thanks, dad, but you're right. And when I do look at art, you know you can look at a Picasso and you're immediately you think, yeah, that's a Picasso, or you know, the one that I'm really into is a the Jean-Michel. Do you know who I'm talking?

Speaker 2:

about the karate guy from.

Speaker 1:

Jean-Michel Busquat.

Speaker 2:

Oh, busquat, bus-busque. Oh, dear oh wow, that was something Are you feeling okay? Yeah, a little tickle in the back of the throat.

Speaker 1:

This Jean-Michel Busquat, I think that's what you say.

Speaker 2:

I've seen the name, I don't know how to say it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, well, he collaborated a lot with Andy Warhol later in his career, but he, I love his art. I love, love, love his art. In fact, when we were in Greece, remember that ring that I wanted?

Speaker 2:

to buy.

Speaker 1:

Yes, that's how I discovered him. His art is really, really unique. However, I always think I wouldn't want to put his art on our wall because it's little, there's a little darkness to it and I think oh.

Speaker 2:

Are there spirits in there that might kind of come like, yes, ready to grab onto a spirit of mine and put the shadow on it?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I am thinking that if I, if I put that, it might make me in a little bit of a dark mood.

Speaker 2:

And so then, now that you've just said that, so energy is contagious.

Speaker 1:

I think after watching the documentaries about Jean-Michel Busquat I, I can see where his energy was a little dark, like he had a lot of of heaviness to him.

Speaker 2:

There are things that we know, yes, and one thing that we know is that energy is contagious.

Speaker 1:

That is definitely true.

Speaker 2:

So I say that all the time, and we buy art because of the way it makes us feel, yes, and the kind of the emotions and the feelings that it brings up in us. Well, some people buy it just because it has a high price tag and they want the status you know. But so, yeah, that's a great reason not to get something if you don't want that energy around you.

Speaker 1:

But the same with music. I mean you think of, like Beatles songs, and and the reason that the Beatles were so contagious and so brilliant is there's a there's a vibration to their music and it's on a next level. Same with the Beach Boys their music is on a next level, vibration that makes us feel a certain way that we can't even pinpoint. It's on a subconscious level.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's. That's why some of my motivational triggers yes Are the greatest showman soundtrack trolls. I know I love trolls, the silly little soundtracks that get me. It's super amped up and super excited to start doing things that are productive and and showing up the way I want to show up. Then there's things like Bon Jovi and things that make get me in the mood for spring break or kind of breaking free and saying you know what I'm going to take a, I'm going to go explore things right now instead of producing things right now.

Speaker 1:

And at that same time, I can remember. You know, remember when I was listening to Creep, all the time. I'm not a perfect person.

Speaker 2:

Oh, no, no, no, no, no you remember.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean, that's just a really melancholy song that makes you feel like you just want to go jump off a building, right?

Speaker 2:

Well, it's so for me, like I used to like to listen to that, because when I was feeling like I'm not enough, I'm a piece of crap. When the art reflects the artist, we have to think about how are we showing up in the world? So what? An orange tree produces oranges. Right, you go to that tree to get the orange. When we show up in the world, we are a reflection of what we are giving the world. We are the energy that we are bringing to the world.

Speaker 1:

That's so good.

Speaker 2:

And if we want people to accept us, if we want people I'm not saying change yourself to be anything, but a lot of times we're reflecting what's on the inside.

Speaker 2:

So if we go to a party and we're gossiping- but yeah, and we're not, but we're not reflecting our soul, we're reflecting hurt and things like that that are because maybe our soul has been hurt, but it's because we're not feeding our soul, we're not giving ourselves the love and the nutrients that we deserve and we're not giving ourselves the things that we love in life, because we're trying to please so many people and we're trying to be everything everyone else needs us to be.

Speaker 1:

And so what you're saying is look at the fruit that we're producing and it will say a lot about what kind of soil we're stewing in. Yes, absolutely, and what kind of nutrients we are giving ourselves.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and then, because we have to you change yourself. You change, you don't if a plant is not doing well and not flourishing you don't yell at the plant. You change the soil and you change the pot.

Speaker 1:

Or the location or the amount of sun.

Speaker 2:

So it's you have to work on yourself, Say, infeed yourself, like when we started reading, when we started giving ourselves better information. That created like we're a work of, we're a masterpieces, but we're also a work of art and process. So it's okay to show up as a Jackson Pollock every now and then, and it's okay to be a creep every now and then, or like I say I had a blue period.

Speaker 1:

I mean, when I look at my art and even some of my journals, you know, I look back and I go. Yeah, I was feeling a little dark at that time. I went through a clown phase where I was literally so obsessed with clowns that had really sad eyes but had, like these smiles on the outside and what I think my soul was trying to project is a facade. You know this outer exterior but the inside didn't match what was being projected.

Speaker 2:

Or for me it was like wow, I really behaved poorly that day. I really responded poorly that day, like very badly, like in affected other people in the way I showed up and reacted and it's okay Like it's not okay to do that.

Speaker 1:

But, as long as you're aware, it's about awareness.

Speaker 2:

The thing is it's in the past. If I can make amends for it, do that, but I don't need to beat myself up over it. I need to know Just what you said awareness. Now, what do I do? Moving forward? I'm a work in progress. How can I be better? How can I be better? What am I doing well? How do I improve on it? What is this teaching me?

Speaker 1:

It's the empowering questions that we often talk about.

Speaker 2:

And how do I, how can I?

Speaker 1:

use this to be my best self.

Speaker 2:

And how do I want to present myself in the future? Going forward, who am I growing into? Because the art is going to represent the artist and I want to represent well.

Speaker 1:

I love that. I want my art to be full of love and kindness and peace, hope, possibility, potential that's what I want my art to be. Dreams I want my art to be dreams and vitality and energy and serving and giving and value and gold that's what I want my art to be. You're doing it.

Speaker 2:

You're doing it every day.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so I guess the question that we all should ask ourselves is what do we want our art to be, what do we want our art to be? And then we should pick the supplies and the paint. We should pick everything that will create the art that we want to represent.

Speaker 2:

Nourish yourself with it.

Speaker 1:

Oh, such a good discussion. The art reveals the artist. Oh, I love this so much, thank you. Thank you for bringing that little nugget, because now I am going to view it with just a slightly different perspective.

Speaker 2:

I know that you love art I do and I see all the beauty and just kind of joy in that and I can see those times when you're feeling a certain way and sometimes I don't respond because I know that you're just working through it, because I know that you're a happy, joyful, energetic person.

Speaker 1:

That being said, before we sign off, I almost think sometimes that, as an artsy person, sometimes I am addicted to those lower vibration emotions because it brings out feeling inside me that allows me to experience life in a way that makes me feel Alive so there are people that I had a discussion the other day with someone that said there are people actually we had a discussion back and forth because they believed you have to have extreme darkness to appreciate the light and I am a believer that you can appreciate the light without the darkness, the.

Speaker 2:

I don't. I just don't believe you have to go all the way to the bottom of the well to believe in the rainbow. That's your take that's my take, and I both are right both are right.

Speaker 1:

I I might agree with the person, whoever you were discussing with that.

Speaker 2:

I love our conversations.

Speaker 1:

I I tend to really, really appreciate that Melancholy, dark despair. I really appreciate it because once I experience that I realize, oh my gosh, I now almost find the other side. You for it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's like. It's like when your mouth is so dry and cracking. All of a sudden water small drop of water is like just the nectar of the earth it's like living your life on the, the extremes of the teeter totter.

Speaker 1:

It's like in the middle.

Speaker 2:

It's like even just moisture Is nectar from the earth. Not, it doesn't have to be water, just moisture, just something that has moisture in it we're getting a little off topic, but I don't know what we started with is.

Speaker 1:

The art reveals the artist. Thanks for joining us today. Keep living lucky, bye, bye. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at start living lucky dot com.