I only wish I’d started sooner. Spent so long hiding. I was using my gift to help others, but forgetting about myself. In that time I wasted, I missed the opportunity to share this moment with folks who are no longer here on this side of life, but I know they are enjoying it from some place else on the other side. 🙏🏾
Surrealism aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement's artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. -Tate
This image is surrealist to me.
A novel out there doing her own thing in this world. Super surreal the photos sent to me this weekend.
Nana said, “This book will take you places, your feet will never go.”
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” Toni Morrison
I prefer the term installation. But same difference. It was still fun.
48 hours and all reused. I like staging because it feels more like my own art to me. It’s like world building in a story. There’s more freedom than interior designing for a client. Staging is like creating a temporary installation. Of course I don’t get exactly what I want because I’m working with select few pieces and they want something general and neutral for open houses. The furniture was not inventoried properly which I knew would affect us in the long run. But I’m learning still, right? Shouts to my neighbor Kat who literally let me pick through her things. Like how kind is that?! And come to find out she used to do staging. There’s so much more I wish could do—bigger rug in the dining area, my built in bench, real fireplaces, more flowers, a children’s room, curtains, a jute rug under the small nook by the stair. That powder room is not mine at all—yet. A more robust master bed, I don’t like the mixed brass in the kitchen. But all in all I think for a first try it was pretty good. I will ask Kat to mentor me.
So much sweetness, but life is screaming “Eat the cake.”
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Tuesday, September 30 · 6:30 - 9pm EDT
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