2021-04-26
57 分钟My guest today, Morgan Harper Nichols, is an artist and poet whose work is inspired by real life interactions and stories.
So interestingly, Morgan spent the first couple of years of her professional life as a college admission counselor before hitting the road as a full time touring singer, songwriter and musician.
And it was on the road that she cultivated her curiosity and passion for writing and art and design, and then slowly began to share her work online and realized something powerful was happening.
In 2017, she started a project where she invites people to submit their stories to her website, and from there she creates art and words as a response to their stories and sends it to them before then sharing the work publicly.
All of the stories and names are kept private, of course, but the public work has taken on this extraordinary global phenomenon type of experience.
Her work is shared around social media and publications and various creative collaborations and installations, and viewed regularly by millions of people.
As an artist, Morgan has collaborated with a wide range of brands from coach and Adobe to Vogue and so many others, and as a designer and author, her work has been available in stores all over the world.
Her latest book, how far you have come, is this beautiful, deeply soulful and vulnerable collection of illustrations, poems, and essays.
And we dive into the verse and experiences and moments that often reveal these deeply personal, yet somehow universal awakenings.
I am so excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So you're working on this book, which is beautiful, and the language, the words, the essay, the illustrations, all during this totally altered reality time over the last year or so.
And I'm just really curious what it's like for you to be in this deeply generative, creation driven space where there's also expectations around your ability to create a certain thing at a certain level in a certain timeframe.
I'm curious about what that experience has been like for you.
Yes.
So I came into the experience actually planning on doing quite a bit of travel.
I've always loved to read about writers who go places and have their grand gesture moment and go right in a place.
So, yeah, we had some flights booked, some places that we were planning on going, and I was just hoping to kind of immerse myself in different places and be inspired to write this book.
So, yeah, it all got cut off.
I wasn't able to do any of the traveling and I was stuck at home and I was just in a very interesting space.