Nostalgia and novelty are the ditches on either side of the path.

Content that speaks to people comes from the gut; not from the memory.

Work that moves people comes from following your heart; not from following trends.

Believing that just because something worked in the past, it works now, is naive. 

Applauding something simply because it is in vogue is shallow.

Nostalgia can say “irrelevant” when you were going for “deep” or “important”.

Novelty can signal ‘shallow’ when you were pointing to ‘urgent’ or ‘essential’.

The path to influence and connection is fresh, raw, meaningful, edgy-good, executed with painstaking detail; not a lazy nod to the latest trend or a poor quality pastiche.

Traditions die. Fashions pass. True art lives on.

Carve your own path.