Life In Colour Designs

Who doesn't struggle with hiding parts of themselves?
Especially protecting our inner child, the part responsible for curiosity and wonder and awe...
What do we lose from holding that part back?
It's where art comes from. That part is curiosity, the seeker of beauty.
We keep her safe from corruption, but we keep ourselves stunted from the full expression of our youth.
I'm choosing faith in her resilience, that her search for wonder is stronger than the harm.
I vow to always set those parts of me free that may discover beauty.

"What We Hide" April 2024 self-portrait

“You’re a slt and a w***e for the algorithm. I couldn’t do it anymore. You can never feed it enough. You start out making art, and hoping that the door will open. You’re looking for that viral moment so it opens up the door and you can do the thing full time. But you start to compromise just to get the door to open: guessing what it wants, debasing yourself, alienating yourself. Until you’re not even in service to your art anymore. You’re in service to the algorithm. Deep down every artist just wants to be seen. Everyone does. And that’s how it controls you. The algorithm makes you behave in a certain way, create in a certain way, in exchange for being seen. And if something can change what you do, it can change who you are. And I didn’t sign up for that. I didn’t sign up to become a content creator. Art was supposed to be a way for me to be in search of, in service to, in community with. It was my ministry. Art was supposed to be my ministry.”