What Does Your Dream Life Look Like?
I love hearing about dreams. I’ll ask you about what you really want, regardless of what you think is possible. I get excited as you reveal the details of your dreams with joy; And my imagination allows me to envision them for you.
All the things. Balancing a creative life and building dreams as an artist.
I have never strived for the straight and narrow. If everyone’s going left, I’ll wander aimlessly to the right. Following curiosity and intuition has been cornerstones in leading my path over the years. Becoming a professional artist has long been the result of exploration for me, where making things by hand was the natural means to exercise this instinct. The path however has never been straight, not even upwards, but it’s been continuous, and as I look down the line of nearly 40 years behind me it’s safe to say I ‘ve always leaned into the unordinary.
Turning off the noise
In maybe too much solitude, I want to quiet my mind but I am thinking too much. Thinking how every stroke I make should fit within the frame I’ve created. Sometimes those strokes don’t feel worthy. And sometimes, and isn’t it bliss, when those strokes fly.
Art to captivate the soul
Art moves us. It triggers us to feel and opens our minds and hearts- if even for a moment. And it is precisely this which has kept me in the pursuit of creative discovery over the years.
Live Artfully
What does it mean to live a creatively fruitful life? In speaking of creativity, not only what’s based on tangible skills, but of any act, that connects our mind on a deeper level and engages us to explore with joyful curiosity….
Life in Isolation.
March 10, 2020. An almost ordinary evening. A casual trip to the grocery store, a little later than preferred means another dinner past 9pm. Some general chit chat, chopping veggies, news in the background- absorbing only a fraction of the speech as the head of the country speaks on the latest updates.
tongue tied.
Creating art can be an enormously personal process, something that requires focus and intimacy from the artist, to make something new that’s is unique and meaningful. But the process of creating is just one piece of the puzzle. Finishing the work also brings on the desire to share it, opening up an entirely new discourse of intent, where we are faced with the questions of significance and what it all means--what's your statement? what do you have to say? where are you from? what are you doing??? This exposure comes with stress and expectation, where the idea of worth suddenly becomes part of the formula.
Life at your Fingertips
Over the last 6 months I have directly turned my life upside down. I quit my steady job, the best friends in the world, a big-ol family, and a cat. I got on a plane with my one way ticket and didn't look back- except to let my broken heart father have one last photo at the gate (boy did that make me feel bad). I put everything on the line, I went all in- I am all in.
Planting Seeds
It may not appear so, but I can in fact be a timid painter. Patience becomes a common practice, as I wait for that instant of creative burst, and can capture it.
My beautiful, tortured double life.
Choosing to write this post has come with a degree of hesitation, but it’s relevancy in my life currently has been too strong not to express. One of the things I have always been most proud of is my commitment in pursuing my dreams. Part of this dream has often been to follow the more unbeaten path, take risks, and explore with an unwavering curiosity.
Let your Art choose you
One of the foundations that has always resonated strongly with me is to create work that is honest and have a collection of art that’s is undoubtedly me. We cannot force style, it has to be a natural extension of how we create.