Comments on: Artist Journal, Volume 1

By: Larissa Salton

Larissa Salton — Thu, 09 May 2019 07:44:31 +0000

You are an amazing strong powerful and creative woman I have enjoyed following your progress for many years and have your books sitting proudly on my bookshelf. I am looking forward to meeting you in Melbourne for the Promoting Passion tour I will be flying down from Queensland and I have managed to get a room at the Windsor Hotel where I will be sneaking a lot of background and texture shots eeeeeeeeekkkk so exciting. See you in a month

By: Andy g williams

Andy g williams — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 05:24:19 +0000

A random question.

When do you get boring stuff done like cleaning, gardening, paying bills etc. I just find that real life gets in the way of creating. Are there enough hours in the day!?

By: Tom Hakett

Tom Hakett — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 01:26:42 +0000

A: Knock, Knock!
B: Who’s there?
A: Control freak
B: Control fre…
A: Now you say “Control freak who?”

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 17:57:21 +0000

I admire that you don’t lament the past. I am a slave to it. Literally. I will probably always be. I’ve come to a place where I don’t feel as much of a victim of it, but now and again I feel the full impact of it in my heart and in my head.

I come from a feeling place I would have to say 100 percent of the time. I imagine myself creating images around my lamenting of the past and everything that is in my head. I am a full time nurse and I haven’t found a way to dedicate myself to anything else, as desperately as my soul seems to need it. I am working toward moving out of my condo into a new one and maybe a new space will lend to that experience. I pray that is what happens.

I hope you bring your road show to Boston, or Portsmouth, or somewhere in this area. I came to your page looking for details about this years promoting passion convention, thinking that this year I would try hard to make it there. But maybe you are coming to me…. 🙂

As always, thank you for being so approachable and so relatable. To me it seems like connection. I spent 12 weeks doing a photography intensive a couple of years ago, which turned out to be more about discovering myself than making photographs. Connection was a large part of it, especially with myself. It doesn’t come easy to me, and I think that is what draws me to your work.

Anyway, thank you for every single thing that you do.

By: Gallagher Green

Gallagher Green — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 17:32:00 +0000

I LOVE the voice memo! And if it lets you blog without taking up so much of your time then it is a win-win!
I remember that movie Harriet the Spy it was really good, but that has been a long time ago. I think there were a LOT of kids running around that summer spying on people! LOL
Can’t wait for the PPCRS (RS=Roadshow) location release, I plan on catching one in Europe since I will be living there by then!
Great blog post, and voice thingy. I can’t wait until the next one.
P.S.
Those photos of how you felt of the weekend, no offense. But I nearly fell out of my chair laughing! You should have those printed on shirts!

By: sheryl

sheryl — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:09:08 +0000

i’m so glad you are open to be vulnerable and share your inner thought process. it’s quite enlightening. this on a day that i really just want o curl up and isolate. thanks, Brooke.

By: Daniel Serva

Daniel Serva — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:27:32 +0000

Well, you should not feel silly. I read all this and I think it’s awesome you made the desicion to share more aspects of your art/life. I feel very connected with your words as I also suffer social anxiety. I find beautiful the fact that even with those feelings you push forward and expose to meet ups outhe of your confort zone. And makes me want to try that more often 🙂 as we all, you have an unique voice and I’m glad i’ll can hear more of yours from now on. Big hug 🙂

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:12:29 +0000

I think the voice memo was a nice touch. I always gobble up anything you put out there so no matter what it is, you know I will watch, listen, feel, read. There are so many things I would love to comment on but I have forgotten already what to say. For the roadshow, you know you have a home – if you chose to accept my help and happen to be road showing in Denver. That will be a couple hundred bucks saved on hotel that could go towards something else 😉 plus I am not a bad cook. Secondly, these past two weeks I have felt more anxiety than I have in a long time. The pressure of selling to survive at this point is just eating me alive. I feel overwhelmed by business tasks and trying to figure out what’s truly an important task. Trying to creat content that showcases more of my process and work in hopes to build value is also overwhelming. Every day I go to bed feeling like a failure because I just haven;t done enough. More, more, more. I feel like a fraud right now. But I am not all miss downer over here. I seized an opportunity to put together a solo art show along with opening reception at a local coffee shop. Kind of a big deal for me but it’s still in the works. Sigh. Back to my hole.