Creativity is both my portal to the divine, and my favorite tool of self-care.

I create these different types of digital art when I need to pray, to unwind, or am looking for inspiration.

In many ways, I consider myself a Priestess of the Temple of Beauty. Creating beauty, communing with beauty, help me soothe my parched soul in a world where so much is wrong so much of the time. When I think of beauty, I think of this quote from my favorite poet, John O’Donohue:

“If our style of looking become beautiful, then beauty will become visible and shine forth for us. We will be surprised to discover beauty in unexpected places where the ungraceful eye would never linger. The graced eye can glimpse beauty anywhere, for beauty does not reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it does not wait for perfection but is present already secretly in everything. When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary.”

O’Donohue continues:

“Beauty is the threshold that holds the real and the ideal in connection and in conversation with each other… Sometimes, the beauty has nothing to do with the presence, but rather, with the radiant poignancy of absence that touches the heart in a special way… Twilight is the most elegant style of leavetaking…” 

I invite you to join me on this journey through beauty. May it also give you inspiration for walking with beauty in your own life.