Unpolished Becoming’s: An Opening Note
Performance is tiresome. We spend far too much time thinking about what everyone else will think instead of what we do. Carting your life and your art to perfection will leave you empty & unfilled, because performance & perfection eventually hinders you from trying anything in case you’ll fail, or worse, others will see you fail.
Art is in many ways a bridge to freedom & self-expression. It takes away the burdens life gives and provides us with a means to place them somewhere. For me, art has always provided an escape, a way to imagine what could be and to romanticize what is.
As writer Ian S. Thomas says, “ Art is the word we give to our feelings made public and art doesn’t worry anyone.”
Unpolished Becoming’s is a series filled with unrefined thoughts, paintings, and sketches. It’s choosing presence over perfection. Paying attention to the world around you and creating for the sake of creating. It doesn’t mean carelessness but leans more toward the type of freedom that comes with allowing something to exist without the need to fix the human out of it. To be unpolished is to believe that becoming is enough for now.
If you’re tired of striving, of polishing every edge until nothing feels real, you’re welcome here. This space isn’t about striving or arriving at some destination; it’s a space to be present and notice the quiet kind of becoming that doesn’t ask to be rushed.
Stay as long as you’d like.
