Initially, i got the idea of this video after seeing a meme saying “things must be chopped and cooked before they are served and ate” and it reminded me of how messy being a beginner at something can be. I wanted to convey the message that, fun should be the most important part of any creative process.

I was quite frustrated because, all my life, people have seen me as some kind of “genius” for trying new hobbies and getting better at them, but the truth is that i’m not any more special than anybody else, i just kept going until it led me to where i’m at today, not because i’m “special”, but because the fun i’m having creating is far more nourishing than the shame of “not being good enough”..

Skills always come along the way, but motivation should come from fun, from the process itself, not from the outcome. The outcome is merely the consequence of said fun, so why are more people giving up at the very beginning ?

I wanted, through this video, to display a seemingly very skilled individual (Chef’s sister) and show that, her too, started from somewhere, and that anyone that’s very skilled has started not knowing what they were doing, yet they just kept going.

Finally, I thought it would be more wholesome to convey this message through a comforting lens, which is why i went for food as the main bridge, with chef figuring out by himself what his sister meant by what she said.