A little late to @knitroots #creativerootsweek1 party, but: a moment to introduce myself. As M, I'm an Artist and Maker, Thinker and Writer, Dreamer and Do-er, based out of Nashville and loving my community. ✨In considering three reflections about where I am in my creative journey...✨1✨Working for myself again after a few years - everything from speaking about creative practice to living it fully as a professional Maker of prints, animation, and artifact - which is its own joy and its own unique fear. It's hard to navigate at times while also navigating grief, growth, and change, but I'm embracing the transformation in all of its manifestations and trusting that the world will move with me. ✨2✨Though I work for myself, the work is not just for myself: the drive to transform community in this creative process is stronger than ever. I find myself continuing to be drawn towards initiatives and projects that call all of us forward into action in our own strengths, and which seek equity and access for all as we go. I'm trying to live good and do good and make good. May we build bridges and make friends as we go. ✨3✨ I am also digging deeper on what Maria Popova described as "an uninterrupted intimacy with my own mind." I have been challenged to be more forgiving and assertive of my own needs and directions: to lead myself with the same compassion and intention I give towards others. It has allowed me to really push for and accept creative opportunity and nontraditional movement in a way I did not always embrace in myself before, and I'm excited for that, too, as it manifests itself in creative ways. I'm choosing that endless journey towards my fullest self, and that's a good place to be. . . . (...and in the spirit of that fullest self, just in case you thought I was a creature of wealth and taste...here are a few more completely weird moments that nonetheless encapsulate my nature. I wouldn't be myself without them!) #creativerootschallenge #makersgonnamake (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2un1HBYEQ/?igshid=bdy8luznaxhf
