The importance of curiosity, open-mindedness, and embracing discomfort, in the scope of broadening your perspective as an artist (and a person).

Moment to moment, we use our senses automatically with little awareness, as we’re designed to do. But there is something enlivening and electrifying about bringing the automatic to consciousness and transmuting it into intentional ritual for the purpose of conjuring inspiration. With little effort, what is seemingly involuntary or mundane can be a catalyst for shifting your perspective and changing the way you generate ideas.

How you nurture your mind, body, and spirit will largely influence the depth and breadth of idea generation and output. In other words, what you choose to do in the moments in between making art matters just as much as the act of creating itself.

Honor your personal rhythms: let them shape the moments when you begin, pause, or shift direction. There’s no rule that says January must be your starting line. When you move in step with your own internal timing, change unfolds more naturally and is easier to sustain.

A poem/vignette

Connecting to the space between life and death, consciousness and unconsciousness, emotion and apathy, the material and ethereal.

The series that redefined my aesthetic. The origin, the process, insight into previous work, and a recommended playlist.