Takeaways

1. My art table is my oxygen, my sanctuary, and the place I go to let my breath out.

2. If I can get out of the critical part of my mind and enter the deeper place it feels better in my body and the work feels so much richer.

3. Befriend those difficult emotions. Acknowledge the anxiety.

4. When there isn’t a tool between me and the artmaking, there’s a deeper intimacy and it becomes an intuitive, sensory experience.

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