One of the reasons I’ve never been able to follow the advice that artists should choose a “niche” is because I have too many ideas. The good thing about that is I’m never bored — I’m always working on several projects at once. The bad thing is that
At the end of January, I was in a bit of a creative writing slump. I'd been creating something in my sketchbook daily, so instead of painting, I challenged myself to write a poem. I ended up writing A Creative's Guide for Persevering, in a bit
I’m trying to balance my own emotions with the broader state of the world. Everything feels uncertain and hard and I'm trying to sit with that while trying (and sometimes failing) to set boundaries for how and when I absorb the news, social media, information online in
My No Buy Year (Artist's Version) Audio0:00/368.89466666666671× When I realized “The Way I’m Working Isn’t Working”, I spent a lot of time brainstorming what I wanted to do differently. I thought about it on a personal level, and also a community and economic
“I’m looking for an epiphany”. Those were the words I chose last year when I introduced myself to a van full of total strangers on the drive from Troyes to Orquevaux, France, where I was attending my first artist residency. I’d briefly met a few of the other
There’s saying in art, that you have to “kill your darlings”. The term is understood to have originated within the context of writing, but I first heard someone say it during a painting course I took several years ago. The idea was that sometimes you fall in love with
Announcing important changes to my art business Over the past several years, since my uncle’s brain injury and becoming a parent, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to be alive - for me as an individual, and for us as human beings on
Everyone says they love all of their children equally. I only have one child, but my mom friends who have multiple tell me that there is actually a favorite, and it usually changes daily. That’s a little bit how I feel about my newest original paintings - the Looking
Searching for the truth is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribed As an empath, I feel everything very deeply. It has become increasingly difficult to be on social media and watch the news, and increasingly difficult to
THE INSPIRATION Lately I have felt in a state of in between… where I was and where I'm going, who I was and who I'm becoming. It's had me feeling a little bit claustrophobic, and work I'd made earlier in the year
I became a mom in February 2019, took 4 months of parenting leave, and went back to work (at my then-corporate HR job, in a role I had started 6 weeks before giving birth) in July. For the next 8 months, I worked from home 3 days per week, and
I’ve been back from my art residency at Chateau d’Orquevaux, in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, for almost two weeks - which is as long as I was there. It’s taken me that long to figure out what I want to say in this recap, because in