Dear Reader,
This week was spent on participating in my own artistic practice. As a teaching artist we combine what we feel in our souls with how we communicate with the ones we teach. We integrate a special form of art, our own, with the voices we use to lift the souls that look up to us for guidance. In order to maintain any language we must practice it as often as we can, interacting with others that share the common tongue in order to ameliorate the practice towards self realization. In this we discover our unique voice as artists, and as we harmonize with this voice we reveal deeper and more personal connections that solidify our passions. This strengthens the messages we teach in the classroom. This gives context for the students listening. This provides reason to pay attention to the lesson.
This however did not pull me completely away from my responsibilities with the ArtBuddies team. I did some more brainstorming, re-working my idea for a workbook into a series of short videos that can be shared across multiple platforms that depict possible artistic solutions to boredom or even a creative block. The issue now is to figure out when to film these videos…
Questions I asked myself :
- Do the trees listen for the birds to let them know when spring is here?
-Is flexibility the lack of a ‘back-bone’ or is it instead the perseverance of self that represents the bending that we associate with a reed in the wind?
-Where do taxes go?
thank you for reading