Walking into the fifth month of the best relationship of my life, I've noticed an absence of art describing the seemingly normal mix of loving/bonking my head against another human being. So I guess that's my job. Here's to art that tells the whole truth, and helps me laugh a bit more in the process. Happy Valentine's Day, my love. #watercolor #toloveyoumore#visualphilosophy
Backyard Budgets
Backyard Babes Bugeting! I've been rather nerdily excited about money in the past few days - I spent Sunday afternoon with two dear friends Diana Gameros and Maddy Streicek, creating a fresh start with the sparkly new platform of You Need A Budget, a program that changed my life beginning four years as a self employed Entre-prenartist. When I take care of my money, I also take care of my creativity.
And, to continue my dance and dialogue with this "transformation partner," money, tonight I begin a class with one of my mentors, somatic coach Isaak Brown. I I feel grateful to have the support of all my wisdom teachers and other artists as I contribute towards rewriting the obsolete, put-me-into-a-corner-scarcity stories that still lurk around my brain: the soup of the "starving artist" but also "you love making [drawings/music/writing], so why should we pay a living wage for that?" "you just cranked that out! It's a gift you got from the heavens, not a skill, so why should we pay you a living wage?" and "get a real job!"
In the intro class we did a mind map of all the cultural narratives of money that float in the air I breathe everyday in the West. I was reminded again that my story is, by default, shaped by this narrative, unless I actively write a different one. And I am - words woven from the chorus of truths I know in body and see in the eyes of these men and women, and in the natural world around me.
(more info at isaakbrown.com/money/ and https://www.facebook.com/events/1679894112292776/)
TEDXBerkeley 2016
Once again, the team at TEDxBerkley knocked it out of the park this weekend! I was so proud to be there drawing again with Melinda Walker, and deeply moved by the speakers. What an incredible presentation of the human experience, like a full rich chord: humor, heartbreak, injustice and possibility. This was my favorite bacterial interpretation/DNA strand yet! I'll share more in the coming days. #tedxberkeley#graphicrecording #onesquigglyline
