a little hooray for big adventures.
Saturday, January 27th, 2007Is there something in the water? Or perhaps the coffee?
Lately I’ve heard a whisper of malaise and confusion amongst my art friends, friends who were once strong and proud, who are starting to lose their bearings, become uncomfortable and have lost the path. This is something different than being uninspired…it’s more like being adrift.
But the truth is, there is no path. It’s up to you to make it. This path is not something you can premeditate. It’s what unfolds before you once you realize your strength. I’m posting this here because to me this truly resonates with the spirit of art and craft.
We are more than artists and makers and crafters. We are adventurers.

Whenever I feel unsure, I go back to one of my favorite books and the quote at the beginning. Here’s the introduction that never fails to inspire me from Off the Map:
This is what it means to be an adventurer in our day: to give up creature comforts of the mind, to realize possibilities of imagination. Because everything around us says no you cannot do this, you cannot live without that, nothing is useful unless it’s in service to money, to gain, to stability.
The adventurer gives in to tides of chaos, trusts the world to support her- and in doing so turns her back on the fear and obedience she has been taught. she rejects the indoctrination of impossibility.
My adventure is a struggle for freedom.
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