Between Spaces
I live life with a huge sense of openness — available to an intuitive expression, a sense of knowing that guides my life and way of living. This current work is contemplative, focusing on a particular long year filled with disruptions, uncertainty, and transition. During this time, I lacked inspiration, was unsure of my sense of self and I felt directionless. The spiritual and creative direction that has shaped my life fell quiet, my sense of place destabilized and I was lost. A between space is a disrupted state of ambiguous loss in which our former way of being is forever changed. We seem to find disruptions to be our new normal.
Our world is in constant transition — filled with uncertainties — the ongoing pandemic, the challenges to our democratic ways of functioning, the escalating climate crisis, and personal hardships faced by many. How do we prepare ourselves for life’s inevitable disruptions? How do we reorient when we find ourselves in an unfamiliar quiet? The importance of enhancing wellbeing is more apparent today then ever. Social healing and transformation is only possible if we engage in human transformation. As an artist, I believe that creativity flourishes in times of uncertainty and that a reimagination of this world and our capabilities to make change is needed. This new work reflects my journey, a guided path to wellbeing, grounded in art, nature, self-refection, connection, and resiliency. It is offered in the hope that it will be useful to others.
