Art is a Mirror

Happy Sunshine,

It's past noon now and I'm sitting here with a cozy hot chocolate. I was overjoyed when I found that I had chocolate Oatly in the pantry. I experimented by putting it in the milk frother and ended up making a hot mocha! It's delicious!

This week I've been in full planning and manager mode with John Williams playing in the background. I ordered a new planner and feel much more motivated now that I have a realistic plan for the next three months. If I work day by day with no end goal, I feel like a leaf lost in the wind.

The windows are open again and the breeze is flowing in through the house. My favourite feeling. Today is quite warm and sunny. Summer is still here and I'm soaking up every warm breeze, every sun ray and all the twittering birds. The seasons are quite drastic here, and in many ways nature is helping me remain even more present. I've learned a lot from living closer to nature and away from the big cities.

This morning I was looking over my YouTube videos and got the idea to make a short film of my life from the last 6 months. I challenged myself to make it into a short 2-3 minute video. I really enjoyed making it this morning. It's amazing to watch your life fly by so quickly and to see the positive changes each season brings. I was in such a low place in January this year, as you can see in the film. I wanted to capture my emotional changes and building myself back up internally. Sometimes it's so hard to do that through words, and sometimes words can evoke heaviness. I wanted to challenge myself to communicate visually. I hope it communicates. And if it doesn't, that's okay too. I've learned that art is there for the public to interpret. Art is a mirror after all.

I hope you have a beautiful day. Speak soon!

No pictures again today. I've spent the past two weeks deep in planning for Autumn and involved in a storytelling course. A passion for all things film related has reignited, and I've been trying to focus on few projects at a time so I don't get overwhelmed. I'm also pacing myself according to season because I know when it's dark outside and the wind is howling and the fire is burning, that is the time I'll want to paint most and nest upstairs in the art studio. For now I'm going to enjoy the outdoors and prepare for my creative September classes that I've signed up to.

I'm also going away on a spiritual healing retreat in October. But more on that later!

BIG HUG

Annika