 The beauty and purpose of the art we choose to keep unseen. THE LOST WORKS: PROJECTS THAT WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY There are finished tracks I’ll never release. There are artworks I’ve hidden forever. There are written pages that will remain unread, stories whose endings no one will ever know. And I’m at peace with that. Every artist carries some kind of archive where drafts and unfinished visions rest quietly. I used to think those abandoned projects were failures, but over time I’ve come to see them as necessary stages. It’s part of our evolution. Not everything we create is meant for the world. Some works are only meant to guide us somehow, to open a door or to heal something we didn’t even realize it was broken. One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned as an independent artist is to know when to let go. Sometimes we hold onto a project because of the time, money, or emotion we’ve already invested in it. Other times, it’s about fear, some pathetic moment of fear of what others will think… the fear that it won’t be “enough.” I used to fight that. Fear is the opposite of love. So now I understand that not everything must reach the surface to have meaning. Among my lost works are some fragments that once carried enormous emotional weight. A song that felt like a goodbye. A mandala I created during a period of introspection. Or a story that revealed more about myself than I was ready to share. I don’t regret keeping them hidden because there’s beauty in the unseen. There’s freedom in knowing that art doesn’t always need to prove itself through exposure. In the current fake world, there’s some pressure to publish everything. We’re told that if no one sees it, it doesn’t exist. But that’s a big lie. Art doesn’t lose its essence because it’s hidden. Those silent projects actually prepared me for better ones. They strengthened my patience and humbled my expectations. Letting go of a project is very important. It means accepting that it already fulfilled its purpose. It was part of your story. Sometimes we must release a project to make space for silence, for rebirth, or for something incredible that’s waiting to emerge. So when I say “The Lost Works,” I don’t mean lost in regret. Not at all. I mean lost as in buried seeds. Perhaps the world will never hear certain songs or see those sacred mandalas. But their spirit remains in everything I share today. That’s the magic of it. They live on through the choices I make. The lost works are never failures. They’re steps. Even if some things never see the light of day, they still glow quietly within the heart that created them. |
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THE AUTHOR  Independent composer, producer, digital artist, and writer from São Paulo, Brazil. [Bio] [Donate] |