Art of the Earth

My creativity is something I stumbled upon honestly. I didn’t know that I was an Artist until I did; once I knew, everything changed. For me, that clarity blazed into my life in a singular moment, 11 years ago, when I found myself face to face with the music in me. Up until that moment, I had always been a “creative person,” but I struggled to identify as an Artist. But in music I found a portal to my own depths, I found a lifelong teacher and friend, I found a knowing that wouldn’t be ignored. It was like standing in the dark and having a light switch on; no matter how tightly I blinked, I couldn’t escape the heat on my lashes.

Once I knew, I really knew.

My life fundamentally changed that year. With every step forward on this path, I found myself confronted with the unconscious beliefs that underlie Artistry. I’ve spent the last decade understanding where those beliefs come from. Through my art I’ve created a space to not only speak to but alchemize everything that I’ve found. In doing so I have discovered the power inherent to the Artist, a power that I believe we all hold.

I believe that everybody is an Artist because everybody has the capacity to create life.

Society would have us believe that the Artist is someone to pity. We are taught to associate starvation and disempowerment with our path. We’re taught to spend our lives waiting to be picked and validated by external forces. We are taught that only some of us get to take up space and that only some of us get to explore our vastness. We are taught to exert our creative power contributing to worlds that are fundamentally misaligned with who we are - worlds rooted in scarcity and oppression and a power that relies on the powerlessness of another. A power that is no power at all.

But life holds the templates for a new way of being - and it is by returning to the rhythms of life that we align with our actual power.

I know that my creativity is something I inherited from Creation and I know that I can leverage it to build worlds.

What could anyone possibly offer me, to convince me to trade such a power?

And that brings us to what has largely remained unconscious; the power of the Artist has been greatly, and intentionally, diminished.

To understand why I would ask; who stands to benefit from our disconnection?

I believe that society’s relationship with the Artist is representative of humanity’s relationship with the Earth. A relationship that has been corrupted by the decision to disconnect from the life within and around us.

This disconnection is needed to justify extracting from life - it is the foundation of a relationship with life that is entirely one-sided and indifferent to our impact.

In coming home to our Artistry - to our expression - to our humanity, we are coming home to ourselves. We are healing ourselves in ways that allow us to show up more intentionally for the betterment of life itself.

I believe that we are the Art of the Earth and I believe that we are also the Artists who can bring balance back to the Earth.

I express myself with the intention of Co-creating Love on Earth.

I share my process with the intention of demystifying it; with the intention of awakening the Artists by embodying my own.

I believe that we are currently living in an era where life is asking us to rise to the level of our capacity.

In order to do so we must witness the wounds of our disconnection; what have the cycles of gatekeeping, and competition, and scarcity, and extraction caused us to believe about ourselves?

Who are we outside of those beliefs?

What does it look like to create in ways that are aligned with life?

What can we build once we un-tether ourselves from the ways of this world, so that we might return to our place on this Earth.

That is what I’m here to not only ask but to answer for myself all while knowing the the path is illuminated by the life that holds us, the life that surrounds us.

Life is constantly showing us how to move from a place of alignment - the nuance of cycles and seasons, the balance of ecosystems, the quiet collaborations that weave throughout each day; all show us how to do things differently.

Below the noise, below the hustle, is the quiet and steady whisper of life. We simply need to pause long enough to listen.