Beautiful Oops - Missing pieces - Are we really looking?
Where to start?
Let’s start with ourselves.
The best way I know to look for the unknown, the buried, the uncomfortable truths is through the creative process. When I just know there’s something there and I allow for an improvised mind and body, the truth comes through.
Finally, racism is being acknowledged on the world level. We cannot with all our privilege just sit and not contribute to healing this.
I come from a really long history of horrible acts on the human rights of which I’ve benefitted from as a result of being born into this skin. In order to transform this dynamic, we have to look at these character defects before we can even see what changes we can make.
So this week will focus on opening up our listening, seeing, and connecting to our creativity source in order to explore our part of racism.
Let the art do the talking.
What are we missing?
What’s underneath the surface?
Beautiful oops- The Naked Truth
The Naked Truth
Or are they the stories we believe in secret.
I’ve always been interested in the fronts people show and what’s hiding underneath. Especially my own. I’ve been you could say obsessed with the dualistic reality in my painting and theatrical world for as long as I remember.
This week the theme will be an object and the story underneath, whether it’s abstract or not doesn’t matter.
As per usual you can always join just to hang out working on your own project if you wish.
See you there!
June 3rd at 6 pm (Swedish time) 12 EST
For those who want “MY NAKED TRUTH” is hanging out in the nude below.
I’m grieving the hopes, dreams, and even real goals, that have kept me going all these years. My inability to give up on my commitment and belief that you can do anything you put your mind to has allowed me to create impossible things with no security upfront. Yet it never opened the door wide enough for me to find the way to truly live on what I create, but I could always see it so clearly, what I could do….and then other things happened…I don’t have another dream or goal in life. I don’t have anything else that inspires me or drives me.
This Corona Break is allowing me to watch this even closer, realizing that I don’t know who I am if I don’t have a goal, how do I pivot if there is no new project to plan. Will I stop existing? I’m terrified that I don’t know how to be without a goal. And yet we are still moving aimlessly forward. I think there is more space to notice how I feel and to pick up on opportunities. Maybe I didn’t need to push and motivate myself and others so hard all these years. The goals I had when I was 20 are now 20 years old. THEY DIDN’T HAPPEN - But other things did. I have now spent the same amount of time heading towards a goal that in my field is only possible in your 20’s and maybe if you’re extremely lucky 30’s. And I realized they are only serving me now, to move forward not because I can actually get there nor do I really want to from here, but because I need something to propel me forward so that I don’t feel the biggest fear of all: I’m not an artist if I’m not creating, I’m not an artist if I’m not being paid to do so, If I’m not an artist I’m not creating and if I don’t create I cannot live. I still want to succeed in creating art/theatre/creative collaborations. If it was hard in my 20’s to succeed in entertainment then now should be impossible.
This is were the Corona Break has been good, the forced slowing down, space I didn’t want. I realized that pushing harder when it isn’t working was always a way to prove to myself and others that I wasn’t giving up. Everyone who has ever created something great has had to push through difficult times, but maybe my survival as an artist was too strong and it shouldn’t have been about pushing harder, maybe I missed some pivots. Who knows? I just know that I’m done doing it the way I’ve been doing it to solve the problem because after 20 years the problem most certainly isn’t about giving up or putting in the time and hard work. This pivot will have to be the most creative work I’ve ever done. I will only succeed here on out in a way that hasn’t been done before….in fact, I’ve always known this, as I do art that isn’t mainstream and I love to question the status quo, in fact, I believe that is our job as artists. And let’s be honest even in the mainstream entertainment you have to constantly find a new way in, even and especially the few women artists that have made it, they have to pivot just to stay in.
So finally the biggest and everlasting question is why, oh why with so many people wanting to express themselves creatively in the world, doesn’t the world meet this demand and include the various forms of artists and those fields as viable, paid and valued jobs in society, so that more people can contribute to all the other fields of jobs with creative input instead of having to drop out take jobs they are no good at or worse loose themselves entirely?
More Layers....of humanity
Beautiful Oops
Layers of humanity - Stories within stories
May 20 th, 5 PM (Swedish Time)
Come on everyone-
LET’S TELL SOM STORIES!!!!
and create some art from the words.
Join this Zoom Artist Studio.
Layers - of humanity
Stories within stories
Wednesday May 13th, 5pm Swedish time (8 am PST, 11am EST)
JOIN US! HANGOUT WITH OTHER ARTISTS AND EITHER CREATE A “COLLABORATIVE WORD SCRAMBLE DRAWING” WITH WHAT YOU GOT OR SIMPLY HANG OUT WHILE WORKING ON SOME OF YOUR OWN PROJECTS.
We’ll do fun introduction and a warm up together the rest of the time we hang out while working together.
Artist Hang Out - exquisite corpse challenge
Exquisite Corpse challenge
Join us on Zoom and create with other artists !!!!!
Not everyone can create such a brilliant living exquisite corpse like this….but we can try. We will find a way to create a collaborate, surrealist, exquisite corpse using whatever artform pleases you. See you @ 5 pm Swedish time!!!!
Connect and Create with other artists around the world
Beautiful Ooops
22 April 5pm (Swedish Time)
Based on the children’s book and our family’s code of conduct I give you a crash course in turning mistakes into art… that can be translated into any part of your life… like a pandemic ruining all possibilities of work… OR?
Just need a distraction? Need to hear another voice than your own? Or just need some inspiration to get you going again? Or really for no or any reason at all come and hang, watch and create with us. Open to all ages, levels of expertise and seriousness.
The more the merrier.