Reconnect to your creativity
For artists, musicians, writers, actors, makers, entrepreneurs, all creatives
Living the Creative Life
Identity, purpose, creative burnout and blocks, and the intersection of art and meaning
Living the Creative Life means staying responsive to what moves you, even and especially on ordinary days. It’s less about producing and more about keeping an ongoing conversation with your attention and imagination.
How We Work The structure for Creative Process work is up to us. The main focus is on re-connecting and protecting the curiosity that brought you to creating in the first place.
Some topics we might explore:
How you usually begin—and where you tend to stall out · The difference between ideas, drafts, and finished work · Your working rhythms: energy, time, and environment · Fear, comparison, or perfectionism that slows you down · Gentle ways to keep moving forward without forcing outcomes · Choosing small experiments for the coming week, month, year · What “good enough” could look like right now · Authenticity and Voice
Read some of my posts on Creativity →
About My Art Practice
Before coming to clinical work as a therapist, I spent decades exploring drawing, pattern design, and large and small installation work. In my current practice, the ragged strength of worn fabrics forms a basis for large installations, collage, drawings, objects and social practice. Rescued textiles, objects, drawings, text, and natural and digital materials come together in a practice exploring fragility, repair, sustainability and powerlessness. My art site →
Selected Exhibitions, Residencies & Teaching
- Exhibited in over 100 shows, nationally and internationally (S Korea, France, Poland, UK, Sweden, Austria…) with solo exhibitions at Cleveland Botanical Garden and h u g o m e n t o gallery in San Francisco, and group exhibitions in Paris, Desert X, Yerba Buena Center, and Miami Art Week/Art Basel
- Artist residencies in Paris (Galerie Abstract Project) and Iceland (Textílsetur)
- Taught workshops in creative process at regional and national venues (Textile Arts LA, Dairy Barn Arts) and curatorial speaking, UNC Chapel Hill
- Co-curator at THIS GALLERY Vancouver and founder of @kollageforkamala art community
My creative impetus comes from what I call repair-response: the desire to make stronger that which is precarious or fragile. I champion the humble and the frayed, and rescue the discarded remnants of a throw-away world.