Healing Through Art: Overcoming Trauma and Stress
“Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word- all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities- it is an essential launchpad…
My Two Year Painting
A few weeks before Christmas of 2021, I decided to start an under-painting on a medium sized square canvas propped up in the corner of my make shift studio my old one bedroom apartment. My boyfriend was coming over later that night to help me put up my Christmas tree and enjoy some hot chocolate…
Life as Experience
Making time for my artistic practice can be a challenge as an artist with a full-time job. There are days my creativity is only given the scraps of my mental and physical energy at the end of my workday or sleepy-eyed half functioning waking brain power at the bleary hours of the morning. Usually my…