art as prayer...

art for me is prayer...it is allowing the energy to flow through me to create as no one has before me and as everyone has before me...creation is the moment i am most present in my life and at one with the universe

blessed discomfort...

in the movie Bounce, Ben Affleck encourages Gwyneth Paltrow:

"It isn't brave unless you're afraid."

as an artist i am accustomed to creating within blessed discomfort...as a creative entrepreneur i am more than used to blessed discomfort...as a child of God i have learned to embrace blessed discomfort...

blessed discomfort has helped me grow as a woman, and artist and a spiritual being...to find the courage to stand in my own truth and find my authentic visual voice, i have had to walk through fear...my worst fears...feel vulnerable, raw and exposed...hopeless, helpless and alone...

this walk of blessed discomfort is what defines the path of The Artist as a Spiritual Explorer...following that inner voice that compels you to go forth...take risks and chances with your art...embrace your gifts...then share them with the world....

'out of darkness' - 2007 20" x 24". acrylic, plaster on paper

and the sharing of your work brings blessed discomfort...will they like it...will they understand it...will they buy it...

out of darkness is a work that visually explores my life and my work as an artist...it shows how i am being pulled out of the darkness of doubt and fear toward light and expansion...it reveals that there will be obstacles ahead, yet it promises the journey will be worth the effort...she is a strong woman, naked and raw, heading into her destiny while remembering her past...remembering because it makes her who she is today...it gives her the sensitivity to love the journey...and it frees her creative spirit to explore all that lies before her...

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