My Work Is My Salvation

With each step I take towards my destiny I am a little less pain and a little more soul.
With each step I take, I fight the perpetuation of my past (identity) and fight my battle against myself to shed that coat of past by creating and sharing art.

Each creation and sharing of art is accompanied by a release of past restrictions of self-expression, toward greater self-expression. With every step I take I am more free in my expression, more vulnerable, authentic, and more me. I find my voice! I stop mimicking other artists and bloom into the artist I am meant to be. I have my place in art after all!

The journey from rigidity to my authentic soul expression is my healing journey. My work is my salvation, and as I walk my road I establish my identity as an artist and return to my soul.

I recently watched the movie 'The Matrix'. Neo is and always was Neo, yet he considers himself Mr. Anderson. The Oracle tells him, 'Kid, you've got the gift but it looks like you are waiting for something'. Behind Neo is a sign: 'Know Thyself'.

I believe the soul's choiceless path is to enter the world of images, take on form, and then undo and shed all identity to return to the inherent love within (the soul). That journey appears to take place, yet the soul was and always is the soul—never an image, never incarnate, just views transformation from an individual rigid thing to returning to life itself. Melting and shedding, and taking off the coat of accumulated past. Art is the tool to free natural soul expression by purging the past (creating art). Facing self and ending in God. Authenticity is the way home.

My work is my salvation and as a by-product, it heals the world. My work is an extension of my current state of being. Holy art points to truth; the more the artist sheds the past the more potent the art becomes. And so art heals the artist until the scales tip and the art heals the world. Such is the journey of the arts—the journey of the soul.