Paul Jun explores Kurt Vonnegut's advice to high school students: pursue art not for money or fame, but to discover who you are. Jun sees creativity as an act of becoming, uncovering what moves you, then sharing that inner experience with others.
I always go back to this. I think it's so incredibly wise. But he wrote a— basically a school, a group of high schoolers wrote to Kurt Vonnegut and asked him for particularly creative advice. And he said, in short, you know, find out what's inside of you. You know, you use it, do try dancing, try painting, you know, try writing, not to get money or fame, but to to become someone. And I think creativity for me, over the last 6, 7 years of being a writer and now being a photographer, to me it's an act of becoming. It's an act of finding out what's actually inside of you, what moves you, what inspires you, how you engage with the world, and communicating that back to an audience, to a person. And so, yeah, I think ultimately it's about becoming and learning about oneself.
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