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I’m excited to share my first completed work of 2023 — Exclamation 1. Exclamation 1 is 22” x 30”, colored pencil on paper. The inspiration Exclamation 1 was...
2022 Review & 2023 Goals
Hello friend, I hope the first month of this year has brought you peace and clarity. It’s my first winter in New York, and it’s grey and wet, but I still...
what's really blocking your creativity
last week i wrote about creative blocks, aka the thoughts and behaviors that prevent us from doing the work that matters most. today i’m writing to you with...
why it's so hard to do the work that matters
this is part 2 of a three-part series where i’m writing about doing the work that matters, why it can be so hard to do this work, and the things i’ve done to...
what i’m talking about when i talk about “doing work that matters”
i use the phrase “doing the work that matters” a lot in these letters. i realize that i should probably clarify what the hell i’m talking about. so i’ve...
how to do the work that matters: a prompt for moving out of shame and coercion and into wholeness
hello friend, it has been a while since i last sent an email. in the last 6 months a lot has changed! i moved away from home all the way to new york. i...
art practice as safe space for big, messy emotions
Hello hello! I’m going to keep it brief this month because my head is a beehive and I’m struggling to write anything coherent. This month in the Studio Vlog...
Starting an art practice & making bad art
Hello friend, This month I officially started my 2022 goal of making art for at least 15 minutes every day. As I sit down to practice, I sometimes draw or...
A year of (art) practice 🧑🎨
Hello, happy Sunday, how are you? The beginning of the year is always full of PLANNING templates and spreadsheets and usually I get very into them. This...
2021 review: Reflection questions & journaling prompts 📓
Hello friend, Someone once said to me that Decembers are the weekend of the year, and boy do I feel that. I think most of us could take the entire month off...
Advice for your abandoned artist 🧚🏻
Hello hi it's November! This summer I felt a surge of creative energy. I started writing again, updated my website, prioritized sending this newsletter on a...
Creativity is a spiritual practice: How The Artist's Way changed my life and helped me work through burnout
This week I’m coming to you with a blog post detailing my experience reading The Artist’s Way. For those of you who have never heard of The Artist’s Way,...
Practical magic 🔮
Earlier this year, I was a mess. I'd wake up ten minutes before work, slither upstairs, and just try to make it through the day. Morning breath and...
Social media sabbatical 📴
Hello friend, This week I abruptly decided to take a social media sabbatical. After feeling a bit too tethered of late, I chose to log off. For the first few...
Autumn reset 🎃
Good morning. Happy Sunday. A few days ago I rearranged the downstairs living / art space. Before, I wasn't making art there because it was cluttered and...
Creative manifestos for artists and makers
Hello friends, This week I published a list of my six favorite creative manifestos, principles, rules, whatever you want to call them! Here's the list: A...
Hangry.
Sometimes when I'm out running errands, I get hungry. Hangry even. Tummy growling, headache mounting. My brow furrows. I start rushing to get things done....
Less like Squidward, more like Spongebob
Thanks to Reddit, I have a theory about Spongebob. The theory is that we all come into the world as Spongebob—excited and imaginative—and then, as life...
What are you devoted to?
Hello hi how are you? It’s September!?!? This month has always felt like a new beginning for me, a remnant of the start of a new school year I suppose. So...
What healing actually looks like
Hello friends, Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about healing. What does transformative healing look like within myself? What does it look like to heal...