As the images in my portfolio suggest, I don’t perceive a separation between art and life. The more consciousness I bring to being the creator of my experience, the more I am able to respond to reality from a place of open-hearted presence and curiosity and as a by product, see that everything that shows up on my path becomes creative fodder for my evolution. Rainer Maria Rilke says, "You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born." We all have images that want to be seen. They want to be cultivated and brought into being. These images hold the key to moving beyond what limits us. They usher us forward, drawing us deeper into ourselves and into life.
My reverence for the creative process is almost as old as I am. Before I was consciously aware of it, I was using the creative process to cope with being an empathic kid in a perplexing world. As a child, it was my sanctuary - a place I could go where everything made sense. When I was teaching art to teenagers in the beginning of my career, I realized that they were also using the creative process to make sense of their worlds, to cultivate meaning and to transmute their confusion and pain. Pursuing a master's degree in Transformative Arts allowed me to deepen my own painting practice and further solidified the potent role that the creative process can play in illuminating and alchemizing unconscious material that is longing to be seen and integrated. My six year stint in the corporate world, starting Beam & Anchor with my husband, Robert and co-creating our current project, We Touch the Earth has all been deeply informed by consciously engaging in the creative process. Being a mother to my two children, Wyeth + Odessa is hands down the most creative endeavor in my life, as I am stretched daily to meet them from a place of open-hearted presence, leaning in and out as the moment calls, while they walk the path of their own unfoldment.
Within each one of us lives a wellspring of fertile, profoundly creative potential. I created Innerland because I believe that communion with these vital aspects of ourselves is regenerative and life-giving. When we cut ourselves off from our inner creative impulses, we allow an aspect of who we are to atrophy. When we re-engage this part of ourselves, we come alive again in new and unexpected ways. We reconnect with our authenticity, our intuition, and our ability to transcend obstacles and discover a more robust version of ourselves.
I am deeply grateful to have drawn from the wisdom of many teachers that have supported me on my journey of awakening and healing. In embodied form: Caverly Morgan, Ashley Dahl, Sohi McCaw + those who’s instruction continues to resound from beyond: Sally Kempton, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass + Maharaji, and many, many other beautiful souls that continue to light the way for so many of us.