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I may have told you before about the couch in my old studio, the green one that sat outside the control room in shameless disrepair. It was my second cousin once removed’s best friend from grade school’s dead grandmother’s couch - and it found its way to our warehouse off Lorain to live a brief chapter. Where it is now, I’m not sure. 


Over the years, I must have shared several hundred Miller High Lifes with friends, unknown artists from the neighborhood or across the wide open. Between sessions and takes, we’d sit there, exchanging laughter, questions, dreams, ideas, and stories that could easily be described by the productivity-obsessed as wasting time. 


“Every artist in history has been exactly where we are now… faced with the reality that everything that can be done has already been done, except it hasn’t” 

I don’t remember which of those conversations this specific nugget came from but it set a belief for me, like hardened cement, that there are truly infinite possibilities to create something new, as wide as the universe itself.


The theme of this month’s Greyt Big Talk is ECHO, which makes me think about reflections, amplification, distortions, history and callbacks. I recently saw the Bob Dylan biopic, and Timmy Chalamet delivered this line to Monica Barbaro playing Joan Baez: “You’re trying too hard.” From my experience a lot of people can feel as Joan did. It seems that Bob was presented with this struggle by others around him trying to make the business of art and he couldn’t relate until he found himself boxed in by the expectations enforced by his fame. As a legendary badass would do, he of course used this experience to share a body of work expressing a pining for freedom to be “a complete unknown” and did so in a way that broke that mold, thereby earning his freedom to create something new.    


I guess, If you’re feeling like there’s nothing new to create, we're just sitting on the shoulders of giants casting echoes of the past… let it be so and call back into the abyss with that freedom in your grasp, what's the worst that could happen?  


I’ll have coffee with an accomplished and celebrated chef from the known perspective in our Cleveland creative community this Friday. We’ll hear his take on the echos within and out from his journey… a moment between takes to sit on the couch and waste some time.  


See you there, 


T Fox 



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