Your Best Self Must Share Your Studio With Your Inner Depressed Artist. Create a closing blessing ritual for the studio to make it a safe welcoming place in case you feel low the next day. What is the culture of your studio? Is it a place to have discipline and work ethic? Where you compare yourself and your art to […]
Create a Loving Studio Blessing Ritual For Your Sad Inner Wretch
How do you keep up a studio practice when you’re depressed?
I’ve been struggling with depression on and off for the past decade or more. But there are times when I am not at all depressed. These two aspects of myself has been at war, each side trying to convince the other side that they shouldn’t exist. The depressed side of me thinks I should just give up making art and […]
Exploring The Crone Archetype, Loneliness, Ageing as Isolation and How That Has Been Affecting My Self Expression
I recently ran into an old friend, one of my first friends when I moved here, pregnant. It was a very hard time in my life, but this woman was part of a group of women who welcomed me into their meetings. All of them, if I remember correctly, were identifying with Crone energy. I am now entering that stage […]
The art I’d like to make and what is in the way
If I imagine the art I would like to make in the future, I see large, haunting paintings, with rich colors, representational, but also odd, distorted and strange. But not creepy, just psychological. Symbolic. People see different things in them. They are layers, with some texture, but refined. They look like they took skill and people who look at them […]
How to deeply explore your inner world
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 […]
Healing a pesky sub-personality
Sisters, let me tell ya, it has been QUITE the week here. I love summer break, don’t get me wrong. But being home all the time forces me to deal with all the stuff I escaped by going to work. The grand experiment this week is to see what effect creativity has on my ability to deal. And what […]