Surrender

Heart and Soul: Plume Agate,, Pearls, Fluorite and Sterling

My trip to Santa Fe last October continues to work it’s magic on me at a heart and soul level. New questions, new ideas, new ways of seeing are awakening. I find myself reassessing what I value, what is possible, how I want to be in the world.

I am in the waters of artistic stillness right now. I embrace it because I know it’s part of the transformation as I reflect on my move forward into this new year. I am reminded of this gift of stillness by the words of the indomitable Patti Smith, that “..like everything else, (these moments of stillness have) the potential to be their own source of creativity.” There has been only one work from my studio completed in the last three months. I’m ok with that because I love this piece and know it has deep and meaningful energy of heart and soul, and a softness that we need in the world right now. My movement is towards creating fewer works but with more intention and deeper connection to the story I want to share with you. In this stillness, instead of forcing a production of work, I’m allowing the work to emerge as it will. For lots of reasons, I’m also stepping back from Instagram and Facebook. I’m rethinking how I want to approach the business part of my life. 

Making and creating will always be something that feels imperative to me. I know there are lots of ways to live an artful life and lot’s of ways to share one’s story through art. Patty Smith says in her December/January Harper’s Bazaar interview, “The point is that the more one is open to life, the more everything can feel like an enriching creative adventure.” I feel like I want to delve deeper into my creative adventure by being more open to life.

Maybe all of this is about surrender rather than pushing. Maybe that is what “being open to life” means.