A Fresh Start

I’m a person who enjoys choosing the path of least resistance. In other words, I lean toward the lazy. I settle in the middle of humdrum. When I could choose to apply a bit of concentrated focus in order to bring clarity to the path forward I choose instead to distract myself with anything other than the task at hand.

This doesn’t mean I don’t work hard. I do. But when confronted with a challenge I’ll procrastinate or avoid it altogether. Especially when it comes to taking care of business. And by ‘business’ I mean the business end of being an artist. The whole self-promotion thing has always felt a little unseemly to me.

Or maybe naming the business of art as ‘unseemly’ is my excuse. My avoidance mechanism. Maybe the truth is that the self-promotion required in the 21st century to find enough success to justify the expense of being an artist means I need to be both vulnerable and confident. Vulnerable? Confident?

Eww.

Holing up in my studio with the hope that the right person finds my work feels so much easier.

But - sigh -  it’s time for me to pull up my wax splattered big girl pants and get real. There is art. And there is the business of art. One nurtures my soul. The other provides an opportunity to share stories that cannot be expressed with words in order to create an ineffable connection with those touched by my work.

And so…welcome to my new website.