Week 2- today my wild heart flies

Tampa, FL, 7/13, 9:32pm

This week's journey took me through the dreaded concept of career/life path that constitutes "coming of age". As I enter my senior year of college, I am faced with a plethora of questions about what I will do next. Recently, this has been overwhelming, so I decided to dedicate this week's creative practice to the seemingly never-ending question: What do I want to do with my life?

Again, going for the collage felt less restrictive to me, but this time, I let myself be even freer in the process. I began similarly to last week's practice- planning, placing, making sure the story made sense, and that it looked somewhat "good"- until I realized (quite quickly) that this method was not what I needed. Instead, I played my favorite coming-of-age tunes while freestyling of some sort onto this canvas, still thinking about my future. In my stress, I have asked myself many questions, many of which I have not found answers to. But funnily enough, the answers started appearing within the art.

I felt my stress physicalize into something I could see- and then it became so much clearer. Relief seeped into my body; I didn't realize how tense I had been. My shoulders began to relax, my neck softened, my back released... so I continued to create. And as I dug deeper, my art began speaking back to me- "The answers you seek are within you."

today my wild heart flies

towards more Balance