I picture a perfect world overflowing with creativity.

I see tight-knit, sustainable communities; tiny-home complexes or apartments covered with gardens and solar panels; neighbours gathering together and sharing resources; and people making all manner of unique stuff.

People are writing, singing, carving, painting, building, coding, planting, cooking, playing. Thousands gather, meeting in hallways, studios, labs, and parks as they explore something new.

No one is afraid of trying something or expressing themselves. Critics cease to exist. Being open, honest, vulnerable and experimental is the norm.

We're fulfilled. We're creative animals doing creative things. We're each contributing in ways that no other thing in the universe is capable, making things that would never exist without us.

We rest easy.

There is no fear of being seen. There is no fear of being enough. There is no fear of isolation. There is no fear for survival.

There is no earning your place. Your place is beside your neighbour, embracing with whatever ideas come to you.

There is no "good work" or "bad work."
There is only "your work" and "my work;" both equal in their originality.

In this world, to "work" is to "create."

We invest some small energy into maintaining our home, but our job is to create. Our productive time is spent listening to the ideas that choose us and translating the formless into reality.

We are creators, called to create.

No one spends thousands of hours performing mindless and unfulfilling tasks.

There's no need. We don't grind to earn cash to buy things we don't need to fill holes we no longer have. We don't posture. We don't hide.

We do what we love, surrounded by people we love, and that's enough.

Since it’s enough, and we're not compelled to overdraw from limited resources or fight off boredom or displeasure through avoidance and indulgence.

Life is simple. We require less. We have our tools for creation, we have resources to support our health, we have shelter, and we have comfort. The Earth can afford to lend us those things.

We live easy lives, on-purpose, doing what we were born to do—what only we can do.

It's a nice dream.

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This is Utopia to me. I think it's possible, but it's not around the corner.

In the meantime, we need more artists.

We need more people expressing themselves. We need more people to normalize acts of honesty and vulnerability. We need more people to open up to deeper connections.

We need more people to open doors for ideas and inspiration to flood into the world.

We need more people doing cool, strange, interesting, confusing, masterful, random, unique things.

We need more people to move through fear and drop their masks.

We need more people to get more out of what they offer than what they take.

We need more people to accept their nature as creative beings and embrace their role as creators, so we can shift into a culture of creation.