Sarah’s Creative Journey

 APRIL 1, 2021 Art (and coffee, and religion, and etc. etc.) has practices and rituals You DO the verb first It’s none of your business if you call yourself an artist or not. You start doing the act, and then someone will call you an artist. “If you wait for someone to give you a job title before you do the work, you might never get the chance to do the work.” -Austin Kleon SHARED EXPERIENCES and friendship “Move slow and fix things” Austin Kleon about his books: “They come out of the urge to share. Not out of the urge to teach.” “The great thing about dead people is they can’t refuse you as a student.” What you need is to become a student.  Really being yourself _ costumes you can put on that help you become more of yourself. Taking all the pieces of yourself to bring it ALL together to make something unique. RuPaul and drag- “we’re all born naked and the rest is drag” APRIL 12, 2021 Buzzed connections sharing memories sipping cocktails and enjoying the campfire  Bo runs around with R

MARCH 9, 2021 Focusing on the/my physicality and my vulnerability being on the paper/canvas. Lifting up other women (artists or other creatives I look up to and find inspiration in) Using my love of color and high contrast. Falling in love again with the details and the emotional attachment that I have for the women in my life. Showcasing love and support I want to give.  Always wanting to give to the people closest to me, but then learning and wanting to stretch to the greater community that IS around me, and actually SEE them for who they are.  MARCH 22, 2021 Cause it’s all about  the feeling           movement       and focus of language What a different way  to write to connect to express all by  using                    negative space.... MARCH 31, 2021 Andy J Pizza wisdom: “A lot of us start making art to be well known, but as we make art, we find ourselves and we know ourselves.” The most satisfying thing is really getting to know yourself on a deeper level. 

  March 3, 2021 “Days to years stand gone but when all else has been forgotten,  our song lives on but we have to know some bad times or our lives are incomplete how does our happiness endure love is beauty  love is pure how does a moment last forever when our song lives on” Just watched Howard, about Howard Ashman - lyricist of Little Shop, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc...[Even though those lyrics are written by Tim Rice...] Just feeling the immediate call to creativity and to use my time while it’s here. We never know when our time will be up and how can I just get out what’s truly inside? Coming into my 30’s where I have the confidence and gut to not always listen to people, and feel that I’m okay paving my own path. It will always be a struggle, but I have a solid foundation thanks to my privileges. I don’t want to throw away my shot.  Every year, I grow closer to fully understanding myself.  Letting my muse finally find me in action more and more every year.