Creating Art

What do you dream about? What do you work toward?

Is it about being somewhere? Or is it about doing something?

Art and Industry co-exist, and it’s really not a healthy relationship, at best; and at worst? Well, I am sure have read more in the last year, and have survived the experiences yourself, or know someone who has.

There is a difference creating art, and creating art in order to make a living.

Call me naive, but I still believe that creating art has the power to transcend the industry, if we, who create, are willing to stand up, stand for, speak up, speak for, create boundaries, ask questions, call behavior out, say ‘yes’, and say ‘no’.

We embody the power to create. And, with that embodiment, we also have the power to destroy.

Here’s the deal: to destroy, to dismantle, to demolish doesn’t mean good vs bad.

It means one exists to balance the other.

How many times, in the course of your creativity have you started over? Walked away from practicing because the voice just wasn’t working? Crumpled up that paper or deleted that file because it just wasn’t what you wanted? Thrown that clay again? Washed that canvas? Walked away from the barre?

That is the power you hold as a creative artist. Yes, it feels frustrating. Yes, it is maddening. Yet, here you are, creating BALANCE and embodying the POWER to BALANCE your creativity by dismantling, restarting, rediscovering, regrouping.

You create the art, because the balance matters. The balance is CRUCIAL to sustain, and to transcend.

Every single one of us who creates, has the power to dismantle, to destroy, to restructure, to reinvent.

You don’t need permission.

You don’t need any permission to create.

You don’t need any permission to walk away, to dismantle, to destroy.

You don’t need any permission to recreate, to reinvent, to rediscover, to reignite.

You just need to do it.

Create, and create again, and create some more. Dare to stand in that power. Dare to stand for that power.

Dare to stand up to what does not serve that creative power.

You are creating art, just by breathing in that truth.

Realize how much power you hold.

with fierceness & fondness,

Susan