Everything Informs Everything

What I mean by this is that everything informs everything I make.

Everything is all that I am, my experiences, my thoughts, likes and dislikes, my personality, my hopes, my dreams, my strengths and my weaknesses. Who I am influences what I do, though what I do is not who I am. What I do is a result of who I am, or rather “who I am becoming.”

People ask why I paint horses, people ask why I decided to pursue a career in the arts. The short answer: because I want to, because I like art, because I like horses...haha. But ultimately these are not one-answer questions as it would seem they are meant to be. The truth is I only partly know why. I can explain up to a certain extent and then at some point I can’t explain it any further. It was a call deep within. Did God audibly call me to a career in the arts? No, He did not. But I do believe he gave me passions and talents that would be irresponsibly wasted if I did not use them to. He gave me passions and talents and the desire to use them.

So here I am. From dot to dot, one connection to the other, I find myself here in the midst of my journey creating what I feel is to be created by me, or rather through me. I think about how everything informs my work and how everything will continue to inform my work as long as I allow it to, which is important because I think this is what results in the most authentic work from an artist.