David Pennington

security can evaporate the moment we stop believing in it.

the follow-up questions are:

• WHAT are my creative superpowers??


• WHO am I meant to serve?


• HOW do I give extraordinary value to them?


• WHAT is my philosophy/ethos/vision?

how can my creative superpowers as an artist be channeled into giving extraordinary value and service to others, while sharing my ethos & philosophy along the way?

but, you cannot be generous when you need something from the world — and are always in resistance/conflict with it. you must give yourself permission to BE yourself, and to find your own freedom and creative self-worth independent of any external reception. to believe in your creativity enough to make art for no audience. through slow deprogramming... See more

business, for me, HAD to be built on top of my artistic practice; not the other way around. I had to find my freedom as an artist — before I could channel my wealth into the material world. my artistic practice had to be built on top of my wellbeing rituals.

Many things in modernity are brain dead, but I can’t think of anything worse than the short form dystopias of TikTok and Instagram. They’re materially making people dumber, breeding addict behavior (particularly in the young) and ultimately ruining the lives of normies. It’s depressing to think about the countless kids who might have started garage... See more