How to Create Art That Resonates

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Not long ago, I didn’t even recognize myself anymore.

The programming, the conditioning, the mask I wore—all became who I was.

The man buried beneath expectations of:

..work

..society

…and the myriad of distractions needed to “cope” with modern mediocre life.

I didn’t lose myself, I was programmed, overwritten.

I believed I had no time to be creative, or even how to be creative.

I believed that creativity was for those “lucky enough” to have time, money, resources and connections to actually do something meaningful with it.

But the moment I started to write, compose music, and create art…

was the moment I began to truly live …and truly walk by faith and not by sight...

Each track produced, each visual scene imagined and made real, each written sentence—was like a shovel unburying the pieces of my real self from under the rubble of what the Matrix did to me.

This is why I believe creativity is not an accessory in life.

It’s not just a hobby.

It’s not a side project.

It is what we are actually meant to be—before the programming began.

In a world of performance, pretenses, masks and faked emotional gestures…

Creativity returns you to your real identity—and it offers others a way back to theirs.

But there’s one problem:

This is what I want to talk about in this week’s letter.

Let’s solve it.

The Problem: You feel and imagine story deeply—but no one sees it.

You know the feeling:

• You make something… but no one resonates.

• You share something… but people don’t really get it.

• You pour your soul into your work… and it lands with silence.

It’s not because you’re not talented.

It’s because you’re still speaking your inner language—not a shared one.

The truth?

And translation is a skill.

Being an artist means turning your inner world into a language others can feel to receive.

Creativity is emotional communication.

It’s taking something abstract and invisible—and shaping it into something tangible, evocative, and universally understood.

This is not “selling out.”

It’s bridging the gap.

You’re not just showing people what’s inside you.

You’re building a door (brand) they can walk through.

You’re giving them a map of their own experience—through the terrain of yours.

Because the deepest truths are shared truths.

And art doesn’t tell people what you feel—it makes them feel it too.

Two Perspectives That Resist This Idea

1. “Art should be for the artist, not the audience.”

This view romanticizes the lone genius. The tortured soul. The misunderstood visionary.

But truthfully?

That’s often fear dressed as purity.

When we say “I don’t care if people get it,” what we really mean is:

“I’m afraid they won’t, and I don’t want to be vulnerable enough to find out.”

Art that never leaves your mind or hard drive isn’t brave, it’s just safe.

If your inner world has beauty, pain, insight, and truth,

why wouldn’t you want others to feel it with you?

2. “You can’t force people to understand you.”

True.. and why would you want to?

Perhaps it is not about getting people to understand you. Maybe what it’s about is simply being a translator, a meta-bridge between the unseen and seen. And that is the energy transfer. That’s the impact. That’s the communication.

You can refine the “signal” so it cuts through the noise.

You can shape your voice without silencing your original artistic intent.

And when you do, something beautiful happens:

You learn the emotional languages of form, tone, rhythm, aesthetic, and metaphor.

How to Turn Your Inner World Into Language Others Can Feel to Receive

This isn’t about having to be a master artist.

It’s about beginning the conversation.

Here’s where to start:

1. Feel Deeply—Then Step Back

Notice what stirs in you.

Write it down. Sketch it. Sing it.

Then ask these two questions:

This tension between self and other is where resonance lives.

2. Study the Mediums of Emotion

Each form of art speaks differently:

• Visual art uses light, texture, and composition to move us.

• Music uses tempo, tone, and tension to pull heartstrings.

• Writing uses rhythm, metaphor, and meaning to rewire belief.

If you want to connect with others, don’t just create—study your medium.

Ask these two questions:

3. Simplify Without Diluting

The goal is clarity, not compromise.

Edit until the piece feels inevitable, i.e., the energy of the work feels certain to happen.

Remove anything that doesn’t enhance the core emotion, insight, thought, story, or image you’ve in your mind.

Ask:

Emotion is the key signal here. The rest is fluff, pretense, masking, or inauthentic—in a word: static.

4. Make Connection the Mission

Shift your mindset:

From: “Will they like this?”

To: “Will they feel this?”

This tiny change re-centers your work on human resonance, not ego validation.

5. Create with Curiosity, Share with Courage

You won’t always get it right—that’s not the point. But you will get better each time you create and “ship”/share it.

Creation is a mirror and also a bridge.

You’ll learn just as much about yourself as you do about others every time you engage with creativity—and that IS the point.

Final Thoughts

Art is not the final form.

You are.

The real masterpiece is the self you build and reclaim by and through the act of creating.

So speak your inner language …don’t just whisper it to yourself …or your hard drive.

Learn how to bridge it in a way the world can feel.

That’s how you unbury your authenticity.

That’s how you breathe new life into a world that’s forgotten how to feel.

And that’s how you remember who you were before the world told you who to be.

Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat (Fortune Favors The Bold)

Thank you for reading,

—Lawrence