Why not make it beautiful?
The art of store-housing beauty and making art later.
The kingdom of my childhood grew an innate process, a concept that suggests that creativity as a practice is part of life, rather than an extension of it.
This is essentially a daily practice in the art of observation—
The daily pursuit of seeing beauty.
To be awake to it is the undercurrent and leading of how the art materialises from my mind to actualisation, even in the fullness of life and in the largeness of being a mother of three.
My phone notes are full of observations, the beginnings of sentences, screenshots of things that pulled me in, voice memos of wisdom that caught me in conversation—little moments captured and stored to explore later when pockets of time would allow.
Right now, my phone notes are the storehouse to an entire book in the making…
“When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you return to rhythm with yourself. When you take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before you. Moments of beauty begin to braid your days.”
― John O'Donohue, Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Balance as a concept has always felt abstract in the fullness of life, especially since becoming a mother whilst attempting to move artfully in the electricity of family life and its ever-evolving dynamic.
Taking notice and store-housing what is happening around me allows me to become a collector of beauty in amongst the everyday (even in its fullness) and then when fields of time open up and offer space and something collected is asking more of me—
I translate it into art.
This piece you have just immersed in is part of my ongoing exploration titled 'Why Not Make It Beautiful?' This body of work unfolds in real-time, its words discovered as they find me in this season of transition. To immerse yourself fully, start with the preface and the most recent piece to capture the rhythm of this evolving journey."
The preface and invitation:
The story of how this body of work came to be:
