Tell me something – why do you share what you do with others? What draws you into the process of not only creating, but also letting others see what you do? Is it the desire for connection? The desire to grow a business? The desire to make money from your passion? The desire for accolades? Feedback? Community? Support? All of those are valid reasons, and I have felt each of them in their own time. I have been influenced by…
Today I noticed a tendency that I have, and probably that many people would have in completing a daily creativity challenge: Repetition of the known. Just think – if you were creating an image everyday, and you had limited time to do so, wouldn’t you have a natural inclination to choose ideas that you feel secure in knowing how to create, rather than ones you aren’t sure how they will turn out? Time is precious, and I don’t always have…
Day 20 and things got WEIRD today. Seriously, really weird. I did a lot of writhing in front of my camera for today’s video to see how much I could get my skin to move over my bones. I also edited what felt like 92,512 hands onto my body. In reality it was only 40. At the center of all the weirdness is a desire to create something personal, unique, and telling of the human psyche. As I was brainstorming…
These are the places only she knows while counting soul shifts in the movement of her wild rhythm. There in the in between spaces where a throat clears into a cough where no one hears the misstep as loudly as she does in her own ears. There in the play dough thudding drum roll empty moldable way that her tongue tries to form the words to a song she can’t remember. These are the places only she…
On my last morning in Joshua Tree, which was yesterday morning, I woke up before the sun as usual. I took a few shots before the sun began to rise, but they felt a little bit lackluster. It might have been because the sun rose so red and big on the mountain, or because I was feeling energized by the rising warmth in the air. Whatever the reason, I wanted to shoot with the sun behind me, to get that…