Art is

 I am an artist 

Let's just explore the body

Let's just acknowledge it 

What is art ? 

What kind of art ? 

What defines art ? 

First of all 

It's an act of acknowledgement and appreciation

It's a major acceptance of what appears in me as I am in this moment 

Of what I feel 

And what I hold and behold 

It's an act of great courage 

To accept see and face things are they are 

It's an act of transformation 

It's the great alchemy of transforming pain into love 

And all that is difficult to release and see the beauty in everything 

It's an act of living authentically and spreading this to everyone that touches 

Creating community 

Strong individuals with great ideals 

It builds immunity 

Because it's based in self acceptance and allowing transforming 

Going with the natural flow of things 

The flow of nature 

Sometimes soft 

Sometimes fierce 

According to each moment 

It builds you from the inside 

It makes you stronger 

As you stand up for your needs 

And you express 

Through your body and what's available 

You find new ways 

You use intuition 

Collaborate 

You express what could not be expressed 

In different ways 

Art always finds a way 

It is hopeful 

It is playful 

Dramatic when it needs to be 

It is beyond me and you 

And thus it's bending the boundaries of me and you 

Bringing awareness in what's beyond 

Unites 

It brings power to the voiceless 

It springs from the connected space where all is one already 

It's my home 

And your home too 

It's the place I can rest awhile all magic happen

I feel blessed for having seen this 

And the pain for not having allowed myself to accept my own nature before 

Of denying myself the gifts I have been given 

The gift that connects 

The connection I have been longing for 

Has always been within me 

And the sense of not having a home 

Was only a symptom of self denial 

And so much pressure and false expectations of how I should be and what I should do 

That had nothing to do with my true nature 

That lies more within art 

That is my true home 

And even if it sounds only as just a word 

And I had put my creative self in an exile for so long 

When I look at all this work I already done 

I burst into a childlike cry with open mouth 

And open heart 

What I've been holding myself back from ?

My true nature 

For so long 

I wrote these 

I composed these 

I took these pictures 

I created all these that I have been denying 

While I was trying to include and at the same time being blind to my own self 

What a paradox !

With all these false limiting beliefs flying around immobilising me from within 

Not allowing me to express and move creatively in to the world 

Only hide 

Maybe this was the only way I knew to be 

Immobilised  

As a creature of art 

Now reaching a safe space within 

Realising 

All these years 

I kept myself homeless 

I even once participated in a homeless gallery theme. 

Now I see 

Home was always here 

And I love and honor myself and all its expression 

And I am ready to explore this through 

Art is inclusion ! 

That's what art is for me. 

It's including that part of you that had no space before 

To be 

Witnessed 

And by being witnessed 

Transform. 

Bring it in to the light 

And see 

A new space open up within you 

Include you 

Transform you 

Love you 

. 

Let us all see 

This beautiful space 

M. 

Back into the body.