Wooheyyy! I have just submitted my entry to a international artist-parent index.
You can read it here. That website has an amazing interactive map, where you can search for artists of any country and then get directed to their profile with data is included: website, personal art statement, mediums they work with and topics of their creative work. I want to encourage all of my artist-mother friends to sign up to this index - it is a database that will grow (we can forward the link!) and it has the potential to internationally connect artists with their commissioners or with other artists who wish to collaborate. It's great! A couple of years ago, I had an idea to create a database for women artists, I even began to structure it... then I became a mother and tried to redefine it into a "mother artist database", and then... I found out that something like this already exists! Which makes me very happy, and thank you, Sarah, for doing this important and inspiring work. Much love!! Add your entry to the index and become visible on the artist-parents-world map. Click here: Artist Parent Index
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I was walking by the river yesterday, on the way to our another Serendipity Booth adventure.. and I was thinking: "What is the Milk Diaries about? What is this project to me now?".
I got my responses flowing instantly, with my steady step, Saule tucked in the carrier on my back, suitcase in one hand, fresh air in the other... Milk Diaries is about inclusion embracing accepting allowance letting go high creativity bold art imperfection simple things equanimity gratitude gentle parenting mindfulness patience trying new things playing exploring curiosity intuition free flow action mess order harmonising melting boundaries and blocks surrender... And then I realised it's not this project only - in fact, my whole art is about those things. And my whole life!! It may seem like a list of words, yet they are deeply meant, they are accurately describing what I'm aiming for and what I'm now consciously creating everyday... Some days the results are great , some days less great, but I feel the direction in my heart. I breathe through this. These are not words. These are values of great importance, interwoven with my heart's path, with my soul's song. And since, actually, all my art is Milk Diaries now... because all of it is being created as I'm being a mother (and will remain a mother for the rest of my days) - I bow to these.. Sacred Words that form my creation, my being, my forwarding of self to the world, my Service. I feel happy and light today, even though I've eaten far too many tomatoes. I just feel this magnificence - The Magnificence we all are. There are some women I deeply admire
online. They are great creators, prolific artists, pro-health, pro-passion, pro-expression, some of them mothers... very inspiring and beautiful beings! I admire them for their brilliancy on many levels and I feel grateful for that they've appeared in my life and had impact on it with their magic. I have waves of viewing these women's amazing work, and I have had done this for ages without using social media, and now - after quitting them - also without. Their websites is the medium which excites me and interests me the most. But the last week's wave - as some of the previous ones as well - had brought me to feeling particularly... shitty. It's not only this. It is a strange mix between admiring, being inspired, a tiny pinch of envy and that drained, down-feeling. Such a weird compilation. I hate it. Because after all I know what makes it, and it's not them. It is once and for all: my inner critic.* *(Inner critic refers to an inner voice that judges, criticises, or demeans a person whether or not the self-criticism is objectively justified. A highly active inner critic can take a toll on one's emotional well being and self-esteem.) Though I tend to jump right up after falling too far down, and thank God it usually happens quite fast, so today I wrote myself a love note, a reminder, a poem... simply to anchor myself in the knowing that "Their Path" is unique, and that "My Path" is unique also. Here's the note I scribbled in my notebook: They might be all settled over there. Selling e-books, e-courses and meditation kits, recording podcasts and successful youtube videos... You have your own way to go. They might be bestselling on Amazon. You have your own way to go. They might be published authors, touring musicians, wealthy painters... You have your own way to go. They might have a nice, catchy name that's easy spelled and comfortable to pronounce for the English speakers... You have your own way to go. Their website might be all intact, and the clear, shining, big-smiling pictures of their face welcoming new subscribers... You have your own way to go. They might be popular, use social media, have a few thousand blog readers and endless stream of followers... You have your own way to go. They might have their newsletter all worked out, daily studio hours despite of having children, they might be high and far in art and in the world... You have your own way to go. And you will follow it gracefully and clumsily but you will follow your own heart's whisper your own soul's song - one you know forever and one that sometimes scares you so. You have your own way to go. They might be younger than you and already there, have no children, no partners, no cat... You have your own way to go. Everything they are or have or do is theirs and you have your own way to go. Trust in this. Beyond all, close your eyes and listen: as the old stars fall, new stars are being born inside you. |
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May all mothers find peace in this creative universe and often rest their heads on its playful lap ♥
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