I have been too busy to post for a hot second. I will be back to documenting and sharing my projects soon. Work has just heated up a bit, and a lot of side projects are popping up. I did manage to make my sister several tote bags, I just never took a photo of the finished products. So here is a snapshot of the 3 sets of handles I made... haha that is all I got for you.
Sometimes I don’t know what I am feeling. Often, I just become so internal that I bury things into deep crevasses. Crevasses so deep that I’m not even sure what’s bothering me; as an artist. As a human.
So I sit with it. I require a lot of space. In that space I try not to think, but rather be. When I can just BE; utilizing rest as productivity - the answers come to me. Sometimes even in dreams they astrally whisper to me.
What does it all mean? Now I know, then I flow; using artistry as an expression tool. Because in art… if there’s any rule, it’s that if we don’t express, there becomes less…
Less motivation, less initiation, less inspiration. Internalized occupation. In the soul, we grow. Through expression we come to know. A space where the wildflowers bloom. Sometimes through the work; the solution in turn finds us. Perhaps that’s why the only way out is through.
Sometimes I’m not as strong as I seem. Sometimes I overextend and then deplete. Sometimes my emotions get the best of me; like a wave… and it’s hard to escape the riptide.
Sometimes I get scared and never express it to a single living soul, because most of the time, there has only ever been me. Sometimes I think vulnerability is seen as a weakness - not because I believe that, but because it was viewed as such, while I was growing up.
But as I’ve grown, I’ve slowly become more comfortable with my emotions, realizing that perhaps not burying everything inside and sharing them with someone I love is actually also a form of self love. When I let emotions pass like a wave; I don’t cave.
So… sometimes after I’ve waded in the depth of my emotional waters… I come up for air again. Honoring my resiliency. Honoring my ability to better manage my emotions.
Thankful for the power of expression that’s grown within me. Sometimes…
Imagination is the fuel of creativity, our brains ability to form concepts and ideas and images and sensations internally, regardless of what's happening externally.
Imagination is like a canvas for testing out ideas, and its power is largely attributable to our complex language system. Our language has something called analogies and metaphors. They enable us to perceive beyond our immediate physical space. And this givers our brain an extremely unique characteristic. It makes our imagination potentially infinite. We can imagine scenarios that have no counterpart in reality, we can create stories of past events or events that have never happened and our brain immerses into that area. We see images and sensations as if it were real. And we can use this unique feature of the brain to expand the canvas itself.
The truth behind stories, heroines journey, and the war of art: a 1-month plan to pursuing the Artists Journey
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they ” tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell usthat dragons can be beaten.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
In the vast landscape of storytelling, there exists a journey that has captured the imagination of humanity for centuries — the Hero’s Journey. It’s a timeless narrative structure, beautifully explored by Joseph Campbell, that takes our…
So, I know I need to post on here more, but I need to talk about some stuff.
What do you do when you have too many story ideas in your brain, but can't keep one long term? Because I started writing my Bianca di Angelo Lives AU again, but I’m also working on a screenplay and now another story idea is developing for a book trilogy.
My current plan is to just work on the fanfic on the side when I have time with my main project being the screenplay because that has the end goal of being a film by 2025 for school. But this book trilogy I know I can’t start writing it because it will just take over, but I want to at least outline it and develop the characters.
And on top of that there’s a one-shot I want to write in The Dragon Prince because I can’t get the idea out of my head and I want to write it, but it’s a one-shot so there's not the worry of not finishing it.
It’s like I always have a story to tell, but I just keep getting new ideas that I want to work on. Should I just write all the ideas down as ideas in some notebooks to look at another time when I get more ideas for stories? Because maybe I’ll want to write them later in life when I’m not working on something else.
This isn’t something that is only happening now, it’s been happening for years. I have stories I started writing in notebooks but abandoned because I wasn’t interested anymore. I just want a way to work with the creative flow and actually finish stuff before starting other projects.
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein
I choose to live as though everything is a miracle, because I KNOW it is. I have to keep affirming positivity and presence. If not, I slip into illusion, future, or past memories.
I have to keep pushing. Stay "woke". I can't let the progress or lack-there-of others bring me emotionally up or down. Comparison is a lie.
My journey is unique.
I can't let external circumstances; money, relationships, business (whether up or down) alter my high vibrational frequency.
I am an alchemist. I stand my ground. I hold my joyful frequency.
External reality will ultimately have no power over my creative light.
God has a master plan.
Present & faithful.
"To the degree I am happy, I am successful." ~ Ether & Jerry Hicks
“Once we merge with the Core Trusting the efficiency Of our Soul’s intent The Flow becomes The only possible direction” — Natasa Pantovic Nuit, Art of 4 Elements