Day 379 Art Meditation, April 15, 2024

Sharing a tiny preview of part of my May 1st art drop … 

As I work with this art, I've been observing my mind … If I don’t do my list of things that keeps me balanced and tending my creative, true heart-space, how much more cruel my mind (ego-space) gets. I continue to notice that after a big wave of JOY from my art and writing, I can easily go down into despair for days, which is teaching me how to stay strong enough to stay in my Heart-space, and not to let my Ego kick me around so much. I recognize that I am changing my life and my ego is throwing a hissy fit. (Ego-spaces-identities will do anything to stay alive.)

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“Feel it Out More”, S. always asked of me …. At some point I started calling this inner ‘true space’ my ‘heart-space’. This is my intuition, but learning how to use this space for every part of my life has been a challenge. Can we re-raise ourselves in a short 11 years? Can we achieve full self trust and deep self esteem in 11 years - which has been how long this All-lines-are-beautiful journey has gone ... Integrating every part of my life with the new…

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Here is where I am with my heart-space:

-Calm and anxiety/depression-free for longer stretches.

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-Being gentle mentally with my curvy body vs. memories of being body-shamed. Just like art, I have loved learning about the subjectivity of physical beauty, and that for me, feeling your and my Soul is the Beauty.

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-Slowly making this new art series and letting it just become vs. trying to serve it to ‘get’ something (the old way I know of being a graphic designer). It’s my having the inner strength to put art out there and allow others to Feel into it, intuitively. (Which, by the way, builds your heart-space, a much needed activity).

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-Making a new paper sculpture and feeling the tiny playfulness of that vs. having answers or a definitive plan upfront. This playfulness also builds my heart-space…

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People are asking me how much I have sold at this point and I can feel their lack of support. This is new because the old me would have taken their asking as “supportive”. This new awareness becomes such a great opportunity for me to pick my focus - instead of the negativity, to feel the tiny amounts of wholehearted support. The sales I’ve made are supportive, they feel right and sweet.

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I sold my first Advent calendar! It’s headed to Germany (via Pennsylvania). I sold a large art print and I feel honored that M. even got it framed for her art studio. 2 more cookies-of-the-month were purchased this month, and one more membership making two. JOY. 

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The world seems to be lost, Heart-space wise  … We need more art, a relationship to art, and the love and interesting beauty that pours out of this. If we could only connect this way more …

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I’m MAKING something out of nothing, as small as a paper curl for my paper sculpture, and as large as my life. When my heart is full like this, I don’t notice that I’m the underdog. I am aware that there are a lot of people out there making something when their hearts are not full like this. :-(

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Anne

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