Art Making as Spiritual Practice

I usually feel pulled to make art when I feel lost, anxious, overwhelmed, sad, lonely, hurt or frustrated. As I wrote in my journal one day in 2020, “I feel pulled to create something when I’m exhausted and it is like a gentle hand is guiding me over to reconnect and discover my deeper self. Assemblages of found materials, paintings with feathers, collages, textile experimenting, dyeing book pages and cloth, using old books as sketchbooks. I wasn’t consciously trying to achieve some outcome, I was unconsciously reconnecting to my inner power, my inner knowing.”