AI and the Art of Co-Creating Possibilities
I do not have the skills to paint a portrait or capture the beauty of the landscapes I walk. I don’t even dream of doing that.
But I create art every day now—with words.
I look at my daughter, who is almost five years old, painting with watercolors. Her sense of artistry with colors is already about where mine stopped developing many decades ago.
Words I’m good at. I can paint with them.
We start decorating a clearing. We’ve been walking along a mountain trail near Asheville, collecting nature’s treasures: a feather; a rock I love for its shape and texture; an interesting stick; enchanted lichen.
I turn that scene into a prompt and let different AIs go to work. In seconds: Possibilities. I curate and refine until it’s a clear yes… for me.
What just happened? I got a work of art that didn’t exist before, tuned by me and for me… for my story.
It certainly wasn’t my watercolor painting skill, which is quite five-year-old-ish. It was the depth of my words and my curating—refining, erasing this, changing this and that—until I get something that really says, “Oh yeah, that’s an energy I want to add to this work of my heart.”
Finally! I can accompany my words with art inspired by my words. I’m still playing the part of the co-creator. The artistry of my written story now ALSO gets to be expressed visually.
Is this cheating? No, it’s co-creating—like an inspired baker asking someone else to do the icing on the cake. The decorations fit, and the result is delicious.
I had a song idea the other day — a silly song idea. I talked to my AI music producer, and came up with multiple songs based on my chorus. One was super fun! And it was so great to hear it sung by a group.
For me, in less than an hour, I got to write and produce a song and play it for friends and my family. How cool is that?
When I started on the journey of emotional freedom, an underlying truth I knew was that, in each of us, there is heartistry that is suppressed.
If you have trauma over your drawing being ridiculed by a teacher in junior high school and it stopped you from picking up a pen to draw ever again—we can clear that. We have the emotional technology with EFT Tapping to clear that trauma so you are free to draw again. (Yes, that happened to me.)
My sense of art can now be expressed through words translated into images, songs, and movies.
From suppressed to free—and easy enough. To be in your WHY, in the co-creative work that matters to your soul… that is thriving.
Your preferences are creative. Did you know that? The preferences you personally have about what “works” for you and what doesn’t — the contrasts and delights — flow together to express something unique.
And maybe what results is just for you. And maybe it’s for “only” 11 people who are also going to resonate with it.
The “audience” size no longer matters nearly as much as it used to.
AI brings forth the possibility to create and invest only the amount of time, energy, money, and heart that it’s worth… to you.
I generated a batch of images in minutes and chose my favorite (from a wild and broad selection that all fit in their own ways).
All told, this story took about an hour. If AI had not been there as a supportive co-creator all along the way, instead of being an hour of effort, might have been 20! As pleased as I am with this story, it would NOT have been worth 20 hours of my precious life’s Time.
My hope is that you feel curious to explore how these new co-creative AI tools free us all to express more of what is in us, yearning to be manifest (and sometimes, as I am choosing to do with this story, shared).
Useful Concepts for Thriving in This Story
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Co-Creating
We weave our skills with others to make something shared and alive. -
Heartistry
Expressing what matters to you, in your way, into the world. -
Real Skills
Emotional abilities that help you live authentically and choose your next yes. -
Imperfectionism
Letting go of perfection so true expression can move and breathe. -
Contrast
Noticing what you don’t want clarifies what you do and guides your choices.
