My Responsibility as an Artist: Empower Those Who Feel Powerless

I aim to prove that no single creative medium has to define you as an artist and the message behind your body of work can create positive change in the world if you put an intention to your art and your actions in sharing it with others. Artists often struggle with themes in their personal lives like mental health and addiction, and artists often create from a place of knowing and simultaneously of exploration to know more. To be an artists is to live in a state of expansion and curiosity. Unfortunately, I have seen that come at a great cost to all types of people (not just artists) around me and myself all throughout my life. Sometimes the cost is their life and the deep pain caused to others surrounding that unfathomable loss. Other times it could be family displacement, loss of a home, loss of a relationship, loss of financial stability... The list goes on and on... My goal is to create from a place of healing and sharing to anyone struggling with these challenges in whatever context and on whatever scale in which they judge themselves and their choices on with more emphasis placed on current choices and less placed on past choices. Ultimately, I want people to be tangibly reminded every day to give themselves more grace and to recognize their own autonomy for change before it's too late. Why? It is my belief that if people could be kinder to themselves while also taking accountability for what they can change vs living in shame over what they can't, a safe internal space within them can grow and from that space they can reach out, speak their truth, and bravely express their desire for help to get the support they need. In my own experience and from observing and listening to others, it all starts with recognizing one's autonomy as a path toward self empowerment vs as a tool used for self sabotage and more extremely self harm in whatever forms it comes for the individual. Some are more obvious than others and others may escalate and require professional intervention, but the goal should always remain to help them help themselves. Once one recognizes that understanding intention behind one's choices is the root of changing one's behavior to serve their success rather than to perpetuate the narrative they've been living by all this time to prove or amplify their failures, they can then assign new intentions toward new actions that set their life on a healthier path. Essentially they reprogram themselves to assoiate repetitieve choices with positive intentions vs negative ones. If this resonates with you or could perhaps help someone you know, take some time to explore the site.