February 3, 2021

Delight

When I wake up without an alarm clock and everyone is asleep. The coffee is set to be made, just a button needs to be pressed. I have my gouache class queued up on Domestika, my new favorite resource. For two days in a row I’ve had this experience of solitude, coffee, and art education. I feel this pull to create that acts as a wonderful counter to the existential dread that floods me each night as snuggle my daughter to bed. What world is she inheriting? What fears will she face?

My counter to the dread is the delight of creation, for the sake of creation. For the sake of sharing a creation, taking others into my fold. Paintings, songs, natural dyeing.. the list goes on. A peek into my inner world, that despite all of this fear, is still drawn to bring beauty into the world.