MMS10: Introduction

Hello Makers and Mystics! I am thrilled to get started with our new season on the podcast! This next batch of interviews, artist profiles and round-table discussions will center on “Restoring The Heart of The Artist.”

I have three distinct threads I am going to chase regarding this subject. The first is our invitation to become wounded healers. Rather than speaking and creating from a place of open wounds, the devoted artist can learn to spin gold from the shadows and tranfigure our most painful events into a source of creativity and healing for others.

The second thread is the space between polarities, or what happens in the splice. We may live in a divided culture, but who said duality is the only option? And what is the role of the artist who abides in the space between? We are the bridge builders, truth revealers, architects of hope for our fractured world. In this season of the podcast, I want to discuss the vital role art-making plays in bringing wholeness to the world we live in.

The third thread I want to braid into our subject of restoration is re-storying the narratives we have believed. The stories we tell about ourselves, about the world and about our own art configure the reality we live in. But are these narratives rooted in truth? Much of restoration is doing the work of re-storying our inner landscape.

Stay tuned and get ready to take the journey. It is time to leave the past behind and lean into the soon discovered!