I love the imagery in this piece. Right now, I'd say I'm a newly emerged butterfly from the cocoon--and my wings are still wet. I'm not sure how long they will take to dry off, so I can fly--but that's okay. The painful process of leaving the enclosed space is over and I'm excited to see where I fly to and who I will meet.
Have you ever thought about making any of your work into prints? I'd love to own some for my walls.
Oof, Kaitlin! Yes. Alex and I have been talking endlessly these last several weeks about the many big and small ways we have alchemized over the years... How we've stayed the same just because it is who we have been, how we've come to a point of disruption, how we've made changes because we cannot stay the same, how we've looked back in disbelief that we ever were who we once were - not with judgment so much as distance and hindsight. I think there have been two catalysts for me... hope and despair. And if I'm honest, despair has been more important in my transubstantiation than has hope. Despair compels me to change something so life can be livable again. And, as a fellow former participant in American Christianity, god, I don't know. I have to wonder - will an institution with this much power ever truly despair? And if not, will it ever change?
Thank you Kaitlin, as always your words get right to the core of it all. I was with my older brother and his wife and to say that they are lovely people would be an understatement, however, their belief system in the Bible and the word of God and it being right, was mind boggling. In the past I think I might have been one who would try to prove myself, but this time I listened and understood where they were coming from and that was it. All I can be is the ever transforming self that I am at this moment. 
I love the imagery in this piece. Right now, I'd say I'm a newly emerged butterfly from the cocoon--and my wings are still wet. I'm not sure how long they will take to dry off, so I can fly--but that's okay. The painful process of leaving the enclosed space is over and I'm excited to see where I fly to and who I will meet.
Have you ever thought about making any of your work into prints? I'd love to own some for my walls.
Oof, Kaitlin! Yes. Alex and I have been talking endlessly these last several weeks about the many big and small ways we have alchemized over the years... How we've stayed the same just because it is who we have been, how we've come to a point of disruption, how we've made changes because we cannot stay the same, how we've looked back in disbelief that we ever were who we once were - not with judgment so much as distance and hindsight. I think there have been two catalysts for me... hope and despair. And if I'm honest, despair has been more important in my transubstantiation than has hope. Despair compels me to change something so life can be livable again. And, as a fellow former participant in American Christianity, god, I don't know. I have to wonder - will an institution with this much power ever truly despair? And if not, will it ever change?
Thank you Kaitlin, as always your words get right to the core of it all. I was with my older brother and his wife and to say that they are lovely people would be an understatement, however, their belief system in the Bible and the word of God and it being right, was mind boggling. In the past I think I might have been one who would try to prove myself, but this time I listened and understood where they were coming from and that was it. All I can be is the ever transforming self that I am at this moment.