However you’ve found your way here, welcome.  I created this space to share my explorations in different art forms. A quote from an Emily Dickinson poem, “I am out with lanterns looking for myself” captures how I feel about creating art. Art is after all, an illumination of our interior landscape. It is true that we can experience the joy of self-expression in creating art whether it is shared or kept private.

 

As a thought experiment, consider if Emily Dickinson had lived during a time in history with the internet.  Would she have found freedom in posting her own work online? Might she have chosen to share her poetry and her thoughts rather than keeping her poems hidden away  to avoid others interpreting or editing her work? We can only wonder how having access to Emily's inner world while she was living might have altered our understanding of her work and of her as a person. 

 

Sharing our creative explorations is a choice. I've chosen to share my fledgling illuminations here and, in the process, perhaps discover more of who I am.