I had an idea that I didn’t know how to accomplish. I live for moments like those. There is a split second where you have an idea, know inherently that it is unchartered territory, and you decide right then and there if you are committed. At least that is how my life works. I am very quick to commit or to know when not to commit. I had an idea to build a room within a room. I started telling…
At the end of 2015 I had a portfolio review where I was told I wasn’t a serious artist whose work isn’t cohesive enough and who wasn’t the type that would be given a show in NYC. I spent the entire next year doing my best to prove that theory wrong while discovering parts of my creativity I didn’t know existed. I came up with a layered series that spoke to many different emotions through symbolism and visual cues. I…
For years I have listened to too many people around me blame the limits of their potential for why they aren’t living the life of their dreams. I choose to believe in a limitless world where we can do anything or be anything we want, but not without a lot of really hard work. I don’t believe in anything be handed over freely; that kind of success takes work even where there is no natural talent, and practice, and heartache….
As we trek into the new year, I though it was the perfect time to talk about balance. We all strive to have control over our lives, and so many of us feel that we don’t. I know that I have days where everything seems to fall apart and I can’t regain control. But more often than not I have learned how to keep control over something that could easily get messy. And I haven’t always been that way, and…
I think that I will look back on this year with both mediocrity and exaltation in terms of the work I have produced. I mean that in the best possible way. Whenever I truly excel at my craft – which is to say, I surprise myself pleasantly – I am also ebbing with moments of creativity that do not serve me in the long run. They are the moments that remind me what I am leaving behind, and my moments…