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Dave wearing the Shame Hat. Chicago, Illinois. December, 2022. © Clayton Hauck

As I’ve mentioned previously, I very much feel like I’m back in school these days with my work doing Realm Books. It has brought me a nonstop constant supply of images to digest and consume. While I think it’s important to maintain a healthy balance of creating vs consuming, both are important to the process. Through the years I’ve been guilty of leaning too heavily into one or the other — either spending all my time making work and thinking I know best or making no work and feeling like I’m incapable of doing so at the level of quality I strive for. These days I’m actively working on finding and maintaining the balance between creating and consuming.

Always a fan of Bryan’s videos, this one today is well worth a watch just to give you some sparks of inspiration. It definitely did for me, at least.

-Clayton