There are days where the idea of being an artist again makes me wanna roll my eyes. I sit down and look at my morning pages and feel like, really? Still? Sitting here? Again? More feelings? Another dream? A bigger dream? Like there is some sort of trick I must pull off. If I want it I gotta get up and get it.
I often say art saved my life. But I think the part of creation that saved me was the people. The idea of being able to express myself is beautiful and healing, but knowing if/how/when it will live outside of me is what drives me. Creating together? Magic. Showing up into a space full of people that *get it* is why I create what I create. I really do believe art will save the world, but the saving the world doesn’t work if the people aren’t there. We are not supposed to be trying alone, we are supposed to be together in this.
I’ve been writing this newsletter for almost three years and some days is feels simple and easy, like anchor to bring myself to. Other days it feels like I am haunted by the blinking cursor. In the 8th grade I submitted a poem to the school boards poetry contest, it was about the drama and conflama of writing or not writing. I don’t remember the it all but know it started off…
“Blank pages sits before me still with all my thoughts and space to fill”
Somedays I still feel stuck here. Little Phoebe in the 8th grade knowing she has something to say and writing about art and the art coming from the process and practise it self. But of course I am *still here*. This journey isn’t point A to B but instead an infinity loop, a cycle we return to. The over over over of answering the call. The call to create, the call to share the call and whisper of a better world but only if it makes it past our cursor and into the world. To share. To show. To makes a big fucking splash.
BUT – we gotta have our people there to answer with us.
I won the poetry award that year by the way 😉
FINDINGS 🍂
This is what the zoom chat had to say at our In The Roots workshop Tuesday on Sharing Art, catch the replay and then join us for Open studio today @3pm!
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I am taking salsa classes right now and its very funny dancing the Sex and The City theme song 💃
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BIG LOVE FOR THE TRYING ANYWAY ALWAYS AND FOREVER HALLELUJAH AMEN HOLY SHIT!
Phoebe 🪄