Original, fresh, new, innovative, groundbreaking. Fuck ’em. Find your myths. Find your idols, symbols, guardians, guides, angels, totems, whatever you want to call them. Call them cliches if you want. Find YOUR cliches, and love them, squeeze them and hold them tight. What reoccurs in your dreams? Moments of synchronicity? What image do find yourself spontaneously drawing, even if you […]
How to deeply explore your inner world
Are you fake with your art?
I am in Florida, at the airport, on my way home from two weeks of intensive studio classes for my masters degree. There are so many layers and angles to my experience here…I am still digesting it all, but a theme definitely emerged. During our final discussion for the printmaking class, one of the other students, Annette Saldana, said “just […]
Do you love your body?
I miss being 8 years old and how freely I danced. My mother was in graduate school, and she listened to classical music while she studied. And I would dance. And dance and dance. I loved to move. Until puberty. This is familiar story to so many women. The moment when their body became a stranger. The realization that their […]