Heart-Art Bundle:
All Lines Are Beautiful
Welcome to my personal Heart-Art Bundle.
My way of working with Art represents all the layers of our Hearts which we have yet to discover. I am very interested in the word ‘Limitless’ - which is the opposite of living in a box.
I intentionally use the words ‘Heart-Art’ and not ‘Brand’, and ‘heart-centerpiece’ and not ‘logo’ because brand design and logos come with all kinds of limiting rules from our thinking minds. Intuition and innovation comes out of our Heart Spaces.
My own artwork for All-lines-are-beautiful-begins with the circles of my heart centerpiece (aka logo), and expands outwards. Each layer of art creates a new inner experience, and strengthens my heart space. I want to work with this artwork for the rest of my life, because I think it’s thrilling to know that although I do not know what it will look like, I DO know that there will always be more.
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This is a space of Living Art.
Each Series represents layers of my life path, transforming what is dark into beauty and clarity.
I make a continuing practice to expand my logo creatively, and at the same time my inner heart space, thereby inching my way towards wholeness.
Paper Dress.
I made this paper dress and wall art to help me stay focused on joy. In the process I decided to include in the photoshoot the two hand painted stones I painted recently. The art is part of the ocean abalone Heart Art series. I LOVE working with my art and making it into new things. I believe that creativity taps into our Heart spaces, and both are endlessly expansive, if we stay with the work (and the play!). Working with my hands, real scissors and scotch tape is incredibly meditative and complements the digital work I do in Adobe. Including all the prep-photos.
My Metamorphosis Moment
Sketches & Icons.
When my long-time life coach S., suggested to me that “nothing happens in a straight line”, something huge inside me shifted towards happiness. It was then that I realized that I had been living my life by a set of rules, of where I “should” be by a certain age. Her words validated for me that being off the family-grid, or societal grid of success, that I am opening myself up to new possibilities and a deeper kind of happiness. Of course this had to become my heart-centerpiece / logo.
My icons represent the wayward and unconventional path of my All-lines-are-beautiful road.
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Expansion No. 2:
Following the Joy.
Learning that I am allowed to be deliriously happy was an epiphany.
Everything in life doesn’t always have to be hard.
This Series represents that.
Purple.
The color purple is not in my center art piece, aka logo, but there was one month when I fell in love with this purple art. I’m learning how to feel into everything in life, and shut down less, so feeling the love of purple was a piece of healing for me.
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Introduce your brand
Heart.
“Unlike other conifers, redwood trees have the remarkable ability to sprout back after being burned down in wildfires. Deep beneath the several-feet-thick-insulating bark of the redwood lie buds that stay dormant until they are activated by trauma - lighting fire or wind.” (*)
Like the redwoods in a wildfire, our Heart spaces are not activated until there is trauma. Success and perfection does not get us to that space. It was not until I lived through the devastation of losing almost everything, that I began the incredible journey of finding deeper layers of creativity within me. This is the only reason I started All Lines Are Beautiful, writing and designing as I go. I am so happy and grateful to be here now - (March 2023).
Following one intuitively true moment at a time, I move from an inner charcoal-like state into the aliveness of the growing bud that is the second half of my life. I share everything I love and have learned, and soulfully shift it into art and words using vulnerability as my guide and proof of my courage.
With this brown and green Art, I wanted to explore the colors of redwoods and what my blossoming looks like. With the pinks, I wanted to nurture my inner playful child and created Valentine’s day art.
* Francine Kiefer,”‘We’re not dead yet’: Big Basin redwoods scorched but not lost.”, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2020, www.csmonitor.com. Accessed September 2020.
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Open.
I use my art to help open me up.
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Third Eye.
I’m so grateful to have taught myself to pay attention to the sketches that are on my mind when I wake up. I love reading about other artists who name it their Third Eye. It’s literally a way of seeing images when my eyes are wide open in the dark of the bedroom. It’s not something I can control, I have had to learn how to be receptive to this space in my mind.
That particular morning, it was this bubble sketch - a perfect expansion of my heart-art piece / logo and heart-art.
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Letting the Art Lead.
This series is pure Joy to me. The art surprised me, it happened when I wasn’t pushing for it.
One of the things I’m learning how to do is Surrender more, both in life and in art. When it happens with art, it’s not really a surprise to me. Every time the beauty decides to show up, I realize that I was surrendering, and that’s the only reason it worked so well.
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Tear Drops.
Here I am changing my circle/dots in my heart-centerpiece into tears. Any transformation story is going to have tears. One of the many gifts of my All-lines-are-beautiful journey was learning how to embrace all the moments of my life, not just the perfect or successful ones.
My art shows the motion, even with the stills. My art shows the light happy moments and the dark, unclear and fuzzy moments when it feels like I’m circling the drain, and there is no way up. But the point of my journey is that there is always a way up and out. I always want my art to show that sense of motion.
Expansion No. 8:
Allowing Good.
When I work with my art, there is always a moment when something beautiful happens. This isn’t about being perfect. The surprise of the beauty helps me understand that I don’t always need to have fear or anxiety. One of the fears I live with is that my art will be ugly, I am not good enough, and the new tool I’m learning is to keep going with my art, work PAST the fear, and allow good things to happen. That is what this art is to me.
This is why my heart-art bundles are important - the continuing process of allowing new beautiful things to happen, and to work with the ugly art or pieces of life, to become peaceful inwardly…
Every series of expansions that I create for my All-lines-are-beautiful personal bundle, helps me to trust myself more deeply.
I experiment with how boldly I can lean on my Intuition.
I love that this series has small close ups that are gorgeous, but also the big, flowing large pieces help me stay in flight.
Expansion No. 9:
Surprisingly Happy.
When this art happened, I was shocked at how happy it made me. It’s this kind of beautiful art presenting itself before me, that really forces me to look at this weird determination that I have to be miserable, and how this All-lines-are-beautiful journey is pushing me to try new things, like being happy, and then even happier. And to learn - just like with art - to work with sadness and create beauty and happiness, as a continuing process.
Printing my art out is a physical way to feel out what other ways my art can be inspiring - wall art, prints, textiles, dresses. So much is possible.
Expansion No. 10:
Stepping into the Unknown.
A part of my process is to begin with failure - make the art ugly first, intentionally. It takes a different kind of strength (heart) to stay with this space and bring it to life in new ways. It takes strength to stay in the trigger of “not being a good enough designer”, and see what I can make WITH this ugly art, and work past the trigger. At some point it occurs to me that the ugly art isn’t ugly, it’s beautiful in its own way, mostly because it is a tool for me to understand myself better, and what could be more beautiful than that.
I think it’s really important not to cave under the pressure of being told you are too much. Or that you should make other people feel more comfortable.
Why should my art be any different? I love that my art is SO MUCH. I love that I don’t know if you love my art, but that I DO. This is a very different way for me to BE, and I invite you to try it with your own Heart-Art.
Expansion No. 11:
Softness.
There is nothing that softens me more than when I am in my art.
I am so grateful that I have experienced such contentment, which is a strange new inner state that is about enjoying the process, no matter what the external circumstances are. This is a different kind of inner peace that is available to us in every moment, and art can teach us how to access it. Which is one of the reasons there is so much art, because my ability to be present Now comes with an art piece for every moment.
I truly believe that my purpose has to do with supporting people in developing new strong layers of their heart spaces, through my art.
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