1st message Print

message in a bottle...Artist Statement So… what are you saying? Near the end of last year, I had enough… enough of living on a hamster wheel, repeating the same cycle over and over again… I had moved to another whole country to get off the wheel, but found myself right back on another one… I was ready to break free, to get out of this container that I had inherited… Or did I actually put myself in it? So what am I saying? I spent many years of my life being closed… and many years saying no… and for what? To keep up appearances with my family and friends? To fashion myself into someone that I thought I should be? While taking a painting class one day, the instructor told us to paint a picture of a bottle… I found the perfect one… while painting I decided to add a few elements to it and it ended up with lips inside… (I’m a sucker for lips, especially if they look like mine)… then my spirit spoke to me and, on the canvas, I begin to write the words, BE OPEN… I stepped back and looked at i