Art Is Our Way Back to Each Other.
Art is the only way I know to deeply connect with a world too wild and rapturous and tragic and illogical to be contained or make any sense.
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Can You Be Naked in the Shadows?
To create regularly in raw naked vulnerability, one must figure out how to be naked with approval. To be naked with one’s shadow, in the shadows.
January Pages: A Sacred Space to Reverently Engage a Greater View of My Own Story.
As I meet the New Year and all the cultural messaging around self-discipline, I'm resolute in my own way: to preserve January as a sanctuary for reflection.
This Fear Is Old.
This is the creative revolution. When artists and activists step up into their power and find a way to harness the old energy of fear.
Let’s Find Non-Vanilla Solutions to the World’s Problems.
Well-adjusted sounds fucking boring. So very vanilla. Especially where creativity is concerned. A creative mind might never be well-adjusted.
The Creative’s Struggle: We Are Not Just About Making Beautiful Things.
As a creative, we push the boundaries. We rub people the wrong way, but dance between that and our desire for acceptance.
The Artist as a Shaman: Keeping the Great Story of the Human Experience Alive.
As long as the effort is applied from a place of compassion and service, the cultivated skills of an artist can be a gateway to a higher understanding.
Why I Stopped Selling My Creativity.
I kept using every last drop of creativity that I could find. Putting huge amounts of pressure on myself and pouring from a cup that had been empty.
5 Signs That Dance Is Your Soul’s Language.
Dance lovingly gives us the opportunity to love, sometimes with toughness, on ourselves, and face all of the things that make us want to shrink head-on.
Blueprint of a Buried Voice.
It all felt too much, and so as the music began, I braided my voice with the pitch rolling off the piano keys. I did not want to be rejected.