Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

Going to social media to counter isolation is like sitting in a bath when you’re thirsty.

accepting your fear doesn’t mean you embrace it or will behave based on it. Accepting isn’t the same as condoning. Accepting your fear means you are aware of it and agree that, “Yes, there it is . . . there is my fear.”

The longest relationship you will ever have is with yourself. We have to begin here, with you, because this is your primary relationship.

It is said that we are not responsible for our first thought. We are responsible for our second thought and our first action.

Your creative practice is available anytime you want it, and it will be there for you on the other side of whatever is happening right now.

you are in relationship to the artists who have come before you. Whether you know it or not, you come from long lines of artists connected through identity, politics, location, experience, aesthetic, movement, and materials.

No feeling you have is bad, it just is.

Naming is important for understanding,

we are all always in the process of becoming.