PurposeWorks Studio is home to my original works of visual art. It is also a landing place for my thoughts about art, writing, dance, connection, community, and service. This blog is a reflection on my personal growth as an artist, the way I define it.
I start with the belief that each of us is born with an innate ability to express ourselves creatively even before we are verbal. The baby experiments with vocalizations; the toddler scribbles with gusto and instinctively sways to music; children imitate and act-out their imaginings.
These expressions are biological imperatives.
Yet as adults - responsible grown-ups with lives that are serious business - so often these imperatives are tamped down, well-hidden, and long-forgotten. It can take effort to get out of our own way, to let that yearning drive for a while. But the result is that, for one moment or many, we show up as our unique, precious, and divine selves.
So welcome to PurposeWorks Studio, a place where I will show up, give way, and heed the siren call.
artist /ˈärtist/ noun: anyone who yearns to express thought-idea-emotion in a passionate, intuitive, or even spiritual way
I start with the belief that each of us is born with an innate ability to express ourselves creatively even before we are verbal. The baby experiments with vocalizations; the toddler scribbles with gusto and instinctively sways to music; children imitate and act-out their imaginings.
These expressions are biological imperatives.
Yet as adults - responsible grown-ups with lives that are serious business - so often these imperatives are tamped down, well-hidden, and long-forgotten. It can take effort to get out of our own way, to let that yearning drive for a while. But the result is that, for one moment or many, we show up as our unique, precious, and divine selves.
So welcome to PurposeWorks Studio, a place where I will show up, give way, and heed the siren call.
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| Maya watercolor on paper Julie Bazuzi (c)2016 |
when you hear the siren call
but fear forbids you from following,
there you find
your purpose
and once so seeing,
before you stretches
the freedom
to forge ahead
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