When we make art we birth something from within.
We give form to a vision that’s arrived to us via an inspired nudge, an emotion, a felt sense, a mood or desire. Whether our art is abstract or realistic, stick figures or fine-detail, a masterpiece or purely for play.
Art is a broad term extending into all realms of self-expression.
We each have our unique soul print imbued into everything we create.
There’s no one else on Mama Earth that can “do you” like you know how.
From the way you place food on your plate to the way you move though this day.
Imagine your entire life journey as art.
Only you know how you want it to look like, and feel like.
Do you stay vigilant to that?
It’s a daily practice for me to lean more into the “making art” part and soothe the “who might be watching and what do they think” part, particularly if what “they” think is not-so-fabulous-feeling.
For example, the other week I created a sacred spiral gathering of charred leaves and charcoal and shared it on my social feeds. It was seen by close to 3000 people, shared by over a dozen and tucked in amongst the kind comments was a negative one, in response to someone’s question about the direction of my spiral.
In my life I’ve definitely experienced moments when such a comment, no matter how little it may seem, would have seen me prefer to shut down and not ‘make art’ for a while.
It’s been deliberate and deep inner work that sees me feeling very differently now.
And it’s daily inner work which helps me maintain that place and return to it more easefully when I’m “off in the weeds”, as Abraham Hicks would say.
So, to my relief I felt not to respond to the negative comment.
It was their view to have.
I did however feel to respond to the question about my spiral.
Why was it anti-clockwise?
It would appear that way if viewing the spiral as starting from the balancing stones at the centre.
However this particular spiral was a prayer offering from me and so began from my hand.
Meaning it is clockwise.
The way I see it, symbols hold Universal meanings and personal meaning.
I pinch myself I get to witness this in my every day work during 1:1 Sessions with me, Courses and within my Circles.
Even though one might learn a spiral going one way is ‘positive energy’ and the other way is ‘negative energy’, for others a spiral holds the pure positive energy of the Universe/ Source/ Mama Creator no matter in which direction it appears to flow.
So rather than choosing to doubt or question my art, I used the comment as an inspiring reminder to keep on making art.
Another will always hold their individual perspective about your art.
How it looks, what it means, what is wrong, what is right, what it ought to be, what they like, what they don’t like.
Whether it’s a piece of literal artwork or the art that is your life.
It’s not a stop sign to diminish, tone down or dismiss your personal self-expression.
Sure, some wont love it.
Some will like it.
And for sure, there are those who will adore and appreciate it – and you, period.
How do you feel in the making of your art?
Tune into that life-enhancing focus.
If you feel called to, use that question as a prompt for your notebook or art journal.
Thank you for being here and reading these words.
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Jelena xx