Because WE deserve it...

I got emotional today. No big milestone for Finn, no self-realization wave, just overcome with emotion about my financial contribution to the family. I was holding Finn, he had just eaten and I glanced out to my latest Green Art Squared art pieces drying in the sun. I thought, they will sell, they will be talked about, people will want my creations, why, because I deserve it. I deserve to stay home to care for Finn, Finn deserves to have a mom that can stay at home with him. I deserve to be able to create and earn a living at it, not just on the computer by other peoples ideas, constraints but by my own love and vision. My love for the physicality of it, my love for the expression of it, my love of the care taken for the earth and those in it. This form of art making may seem simple, too marketable, too mass media. For me that is the beauty in it, it's simplicity. Simple in the fact that it reuses what others deem as trash, not in a kitschy sort of way but in an elegant way that you would want to hang in your home. I'm over art needing to make a statement, yes there is a place for it but what I wan to create is something people can live with day in and day out and love for the sheer beauty. Also not only do I get to feel good about using recycled materials but the people that buy my art get to feel good about their purchase as well.

I have worked hard for years for other people now it's my turn to work hard for myself. To make a living for me and my family the way I need to and they way they need me to. So universe I'm ready, I'm doing the work as you would have me do. I'll be looking for those doors your opening for me.