You're ahead of your time

a gentle reminder for you every monday

Feb 24, 2025

As a freelancer ✨creative ✨ person, I know how you start your week matters.

What you consume first thing? matters

What you believe about yourself (whether positive or negative)? matters.

I know that some days you often wake up in full alignment with your creative purpose/career/ambitions/ and then one day wake up and want to completely quit and be done with it all because' - ‘‘WTF am I doing with my life?’’ (again!)

Fear not, every Monday, I will bring you creative reminders to center you on your artistic journey (whatever that looks like) much of it will be from all kinds of places, but artistic mediums that remind me why we do this.

It is likely, you will still feel like shit at some point, but I aim to help you feel less ‘‘shit’’ at least when you start your week. So you start your day feeling like ‘‘no, I think I have got this because

‘‘I am just simply ahead of my time’’.

with that being said..

lets get consuming..

Tina Turner Interview (1984)

‘‘I’m not threatened because I find myself attractive’’ — this line is so KunT. It is such a super power to like yourself physically and internally especially as a woman.

Lily Allen - The Fear (2009)

’The Fear’’ I first heard aged 14 in high school not realizing the lyrics, listening again at 31 is a different experience. The lyrics ring true to the time we are living in 16 years later, Lily essentially predicted the Instagram and TikTok era even though the song came out in 2009.

‘‘I look at the sun and I look in the Mirror’’ this metaphoric lyric in the song is just so clever, and I’ll never get over it.

I went to the Africa Centre in Southwark, on Friday night and was completely struck by this sculpture, I fell in love with it, because the child looked like they felt ‘‘free’’.I then read the sculpture was called When It Rains, I’ll Send For You by Nigerian artist Peju Alatise and is a sequel to a larger installation called Sim and the Yellow Glass Birds.

The sculpture expands on the story of a nine-year-old child called Sim who was rented out as a domestic servant, which is not uncommon in Nigeria. However, much of Alatise’s work focuses on creating a place where children can believe in fantasy worlds and adults can connect to their inner child and less about the perpetrators and exploitations.