Drawing Together - 2025 02 28

 

Graphite, acrylic ink on paper - 5" x 5" (in progress)

Last night three of us gathered at the dining table to work on our art projects and talk about whatever came to mind. 

We allowed our creative impulses to let us know what was the next right thing to do. 

We started the evening, coming in from each our separate lives. Each our separate histories, experiences, and family configurations. We brought our distress with the unfolding tyranny and kleptocracy, the risk our American families and friends are facing as they scramble to weather the storm of dis-regulated government destruction. 

We shared moments of pride, happiness, and also, fear, sadness and shame. 

We drank herb tea.

Through the process, the lived experience of creating and sharing, our feelings of separation, isolation, and hopelessness transformed into connectedness, belonging and hope. 

At the end of the evening we each had our artworks in progress in hand: a new ankle bracelet, an illustration for a 60th birthday card, and an exploration in step pattern and ink. We also had a new found sense of purpose, of resilience, and resolve, a confidence in our ingenuity, our agency, and our collective intention to do good in the world.

It is essential, today, to take a moment to gather our thoughts, calm our minds, and reach out to share a kindness. We are the solution we seek. We are enough. We can do this.