‘Destroy to create’
This has come up in a few things I’ve been reading and studying recently. The artist's dilemma of having to let something go to make space for something new and better and different. And then taken to it’s ultimate state, destroy something, intentionally get rid of it to let in the new.
I’ve nearly finished Bobby Gillespie's autobiography and there will be a post at some point all about lessons from the ‘scream, but as a small extraction he talks about how he / they (the band) had to deliberately destroy some of the songs they really loved to create ones that were even better.
How they had to hand over some of their work to other artists (particularly DJ Andy Weatherall) and just walk away and let him do his thing. That’s how Loaded was created. It was a rock and roll song (that they loved) that was handed over to an acid house DJ to destroy, but ultimately create their biggest hit.
So that got me thinking…
What if we handed over some of our most treasured work to someone else to destroy (and create something new).
I’m wondering what if I handed over my podcast to Bobby Gillespie?
What if I handed over my book to Daisy May Cooper?
What if I handed over my speaker set about how to handle change to Ncuti Gatwa?
They’d destroy them, but what would they create!
What would you hand over?
Who would you hand over to?
eleanor