Drawing:

Strangely meditative and strongly therapeutic…

My mind slips off into a state of transient awareness and I am intensely relaxed and yet almost hyper aware… stimuli pass through me and rather than being interrupted by them, I pull pieces from their subtle effects and allow the rest to float through me, off into the oblivion.

Lines, marks, my pen strokes the page as though it knows where to go all on its own… my hand is guided by the page, my mind engaged, yet fluid…

I drift away.

the creative process:

I am human; I am creative because I am human.

Brain more capable, mind more versatile, spirit more resilient than could ever accurately be given credit for…

Every time I must choose, decide, pick one over the other, I use my creative abilities.

Every time I adjust, modify, adapt, evolve, I tap into the deep well of my creative power.

Every time I speak, form a thought, communicate, gesture, I embody the creativity that lives in every fiber of my being.

I am human; I am creative because I am human.

the creative brain dump

Brain drain, dump the train, stay the track or go insane

Produce too much or don’t create, sometimes I can’t initiate

Love to love, or love to hate, cross the bridge, walk through the gate 

Falling, falling, spinning round, sweep the sky and touch the ground

Alice falling down the hole, whirling twirling have to go

Looking glass from the other side, I stare and wonder what’s inside…

A world, this place I’ve never been… to miss it now would be a sin

Moving forward all to fast, run from now escape the past

Forward motion, smoking gun, hurtling train of creative fun

Screaming, barreling down the tracks, don’t turn around, never never look back

Remember, always, where you’ve been, growth, change, and every friend

Blue, true, wired, wait, buy the book to get the bait

Thinking, looking all around, sight, smell, taste, sound

Imagine, wonder, stories abound, mistakes we make keep our hearts on the ground

Silver linings keep me warm, watch me, save me from the storm

Stress anxiety, my own strife, keep me, sleep me in this life 

Twinkle, sparkle, snap and shine, synapse firing down the line

Idea, realization, truth, me… take the leap and set it free  

by nature of being human, i am continually affected

every waking moment i take in information


feel, see, hear, smell, taste


i internalize
conceptualize
realize
analyze


think, breath, move, wait


i moderate
anticipate
regulate
pontificate


input, process, output
input, process, output
input, process, output


by nature of being human, i am continually affected

listology: the "to-do" list

i think i've created a whole new art form for my self out of making "to-do" lists...

it's ritualistic, creative, and organizational all in the same moment, at least that's how it feels to me.  i need them, i like making them, i like crossing things off of them... they work for me.

over the course of the next 10 days these are a few of the things that will be on my "to-do" lists:

• complete a mural with the young artists at my community arts summer internship site
• complete an oral history project (research, contact person to interview, interview, cut, transcribe, edit, fine tune)
• complete a final work of art under the theme of "koinonia" based on relationships
• begin visiting and applying to fall/spring community arts residency sites
• find an apartment to move into by Aug. 1st
• other "stuff" as assigned or as needed
• maintain my sanity :)

good energy fairies of the universe unite!  i'm gonna need all the help i can get.

my heart is my shield

there are monsters in my midst
spirit chomping, energy sucking monsters who only seek to puff up their own ego
i have something they want, but they cannot have it
they will fight and taunt and push, but they will not get it
my heart is my shield
i am strong
my roots are buried deep within the fertile ground of my history; love, creativity, true goodness
my wings stretch high above me, too high for the monsters to reach
my purpose is written in the stars
my heart is my shield
i am strong
i am strong
i am strong

trusting my intuition

i am here for a reason, this i know.
my journey has brought me to this place, 
unknown in detail, yet known to my soul.
every step that i have taken before has prepared me for the adventures and challenges that lie ahead.
i will trust my hearts knowing to guide me through.  
i will trust the truth that lies within. 
i will trust the rich well of creative strength that is rooted deeply in my being.
i am here for a reason, i must follow my heart.
i will trust my intuition.

New Beginnings...

so i'm trying this whole Blogging thing again...
i've moved to a new city, Baltimore, MD... i'm embarking on a new adventure and beginning a new chapter in my life as a graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, earning my MA in Community Arts.


we are expected to reflect every day on the site work that we are doing, and i feel that recording my reflections on my blog would be a more creative format for documenting my journey and the thoughts and feelings that i encounter along the way.


i've re-vamped my blog--updated layout, new background, sassy color scheme--in the hope that spending a bit of my creative energy reviving my ol' online journaling companion will keep me invested in doing my required reflection here... we'll see.  it's all new uncharted water i'm sailing into so, i have to keep an open mind and a flexible approach.


ta-ta for now,
sukey