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When creative identity feels completely undefined

I keep copying artists I admire and everything I make feels derivative but when I try to be original I have no idea who I actually am as a creator.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Artistic self-knowledge remains undeveloped beneath layers of influence and imitation.

Ideas that help explain it
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