I too found the video interesting. I thought there was some good advice for just having fun and exploring--maybe even to recapture the elusive mojo although that wasn't the purpose. However, I wondered why artists felt it necessary to give themselves a label, to pidgeon-hole themselves in one definable style.
I have to admit there was a time I proudly thought I didn't have a particular style. I love so many different styles even if I didn't make them myself. Quite a while ago, I was in a fun group that had regular swaps. We mostly made ATCs-sometimes many of them to swap with as many people. One time someone told me her mother enjoyed looking through the pages of her ATC book and could always pick out mine. Hmmm. In those days, an ATC meant using collage and various techniques. Still her mother could pick out mine. Another time, on Two Peas, someone asked us to look at our galleries to see if we discerned a style. (Was that you, Daniel?) Oh, yeah. Everything I made had one or two mats and very few embellishments (often three pearls or crystals). I liked trying different techniques, but still my cards had an underlying similarity. Nowadays, I enjoy going to workshops when I can. While I usually like the cards we make, I often say they are not something I would ordinarily make. When I show them to my son, he usually says, "I prefer your usual style." So much for not having a particular style.
No matter how much I love more elaborate cards, I almost breathe a sigh of pure love when I see a clean and simple one that is lovely or funny. (You have all probably sighed over Birgit Edblom's or Loll Thompson's cards. Right?) I love to look at cards on the internet. Lately, I haven't made much of anything at all, and I've considered just copying other people's cards to get me back in the groove. Even when I CASE a card, the card I make doesn't turn out quite the same way the original does unless I'm at a workshop where they provide the exact same materials. Even then, I end up making some changes (or mistakes). lol.
Thank you for the interesting discussion.
Daria