Curiosity And Discovery

“Through curiosity we discover our truest selves as individuals in society and society itself, finding resolve and meaning, while fueling purpose and hope.”

NOURISH | Carl Barnett

It is through the process of digging and sifting that we learn who we are and where we hope to go in the future. Through curiosity we discover our truest selves as individuals in society and society itself, finding resolve and meaning, while fueling purpose and hope. Through curiosity we learn, edit and expand.

NOURISH | SENTIENT

“Creativity is a language of communication, map and inquiry to the collective mass, a means to decipher and inspire or to otherwise give sense to the cacophony of being human.”

NOURISH | studiovoll

It is also through the process of creativity, that we discover who we are and encourage others to do the same: a mirror to the creator, light for others to see. Creativity is a language of communication, map and inquiry to the collective mass, a means to decipher and inspire or to otherwise give sense to the cacophony of being human. It is intuitive as emotion and mind, intrinsic as hope, will and love.

NOURISH | Laurence Elle Groux

Tenacity And Merely Doing

“It is the creative mind that frees us from our trenches, if only for moments at a time, as we build our new vision, plot our escape.”

Studio Roosegaarde | Urban Sun

At times it seems nothing makes sense, our lives feel as if no longer ours, no longer our original hope or deepest dream, as though someone else’s life we’ve been preening. We tend to follow a path so deep and far that it becomes no longer a path but a trench, protecting us from the fear of newness and change, from seeing what’s out there or more precisely from feeling what’s within. It is the creative mind that frees us from our trenches, if only for moments at a time, as we build our new vision, plot our escape.

GALLERY | Andy Graves | Carl Barnett

“The truest self is beauty manifesting, the intuitive cartographer, building moments one stone at a time.”

GALLERY | studiovoll | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Andy Graves | Carl Barnett

The creative mind has brought us to where we are and will bring us to where we need to be. We are not a perfect species, we lose our light and follow paths no longer viable, reacting to ghosts. The truest self is beauty manifesting, the intuitive cartographer, building moments one stone at a time. 

GALLERY | studiovoll

“Creativity is guide and compass, map and renderer of the future, maker of things and words that pull and push.”

GALLERY | Andy Graves

Beauty sets the psyche’s compass, inspiring the creative mind to forge a new way, fostering change by way of new light and resolute will. Creativity is guide and compass, map and renderer of the future, maker of things and words that pull and push. This is how reality is molded and the future comes to pass, by tenacity and merely doing: a beautiful mind. 

GALLERY | studiovoll | Artist’s Book

Sequences Of Progression

How we live are 

sequences of progression: 

GALLERY | Carl Barnett

To draw a line. 

To cross a line. 

To tie a line.

GALLERY | Carl Barnett | studiovoll | Liadain Warwick Smith

To do better.

To be better.

To give better. 

GALLERY | Carl Barnett

Who We Are.

“Surrounding oneself with beauty is an intuitive endeavor that mirrors who we are, easing and inspiring life onward.”

GALLERY | Kathryn Robinson-Millen

To live and let live and to merely do is a mindset that emphasizes self care in a chaotic world, stepping back from the demanding core of society and living life autonomously and simply. Surrounding oneself with beauty is an intuitive endeavor that mirrors who we are, easing and inspiring life onward. To live with nature and the creative endeavors of others simplifies life to the basic elements of who we are, softening the noise of contemporary life. 

GALLERY | studiovoll | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Liadain Warwick Smith | Andy Graves

“To be inspired by beauty is to be inspired by our truest self and our closest collective: to inspire and to be inspired.”

GALLERY | SENTIENT | Liadain Warwick Smith

It is by going inward that we create and see a more beautiful outward, where life and self merge more clearly and excess falls away as we edit our needs. To be inspired by beauty is to be inspired by our truest self and our closest collective: to inspire and to be inspired. Beauty is how we see it and how we make it, how we decipher and consume. We are who we say we are and what we decide to create. 

Sandra Matasick

“Beauty and the ugly share the same frame of space, as they both come from within.”

Marjorie Schick

In a world that often seems ugly it’s knowing that we can create its opposite that sets the scales more even. Beauty is the dominate in humanity’s pendulum, though difficult at times to see. The creative mind is the continual force that moves us forward from the seemingly backward slide. Beauty and the ugly share the same frame of space, as they both come from within.

GALLERY | Carl Barnett

“We have the capacity of both beauty and ugly, of choice and creation, to find our way forward in the spiraling dark.” 

Vo Trong Nghia Architects

We are born from the stars, the energy that creates, the vastness of beauty and the depth of possibility. We have the capacity of both beauty and ugly, choice and creation, to find our way forward in the spiraling dark. 

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Beautiful Mind

“How we live within the beauty and the ugly of life can ease or restrain all efforts forward.”

GALLERY | Liadain Warwick Smith | Carl Barnett

It’s in how we live now that the future blooms, where our actions of today informs our tomorrows. How we live within the beauty and the ugly of life can ease or restrain all efforts forward. Where beauty lights the darkest corners and will navigates the ongoing way. 

GALLERY | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Carl Barnett

“Beauty shows us who we are by how we view it, how we surround and edit, covet and give.”

GALLERY | studio voll | Liadain Warwick Smith | Kathryn Robinson-Millen

It’s not the things we collect that makes life shine, it’s the meaning we attach to them, how they pull at our emotions, enhancing our experiences and what we already have within. Beauty shows us who we are by how we view it, how we surround and edit, covet and give. It is who we are innately, what we strive for in words and deeds. Beauty has its ugly side, as we too do, each has the potential to build and destroy, depending on which wolf we feed, the good or bad within. 

GALLERY | Carl Barnett | studio voll | Liadain Warwick Smith

“To surround oneself with beauty, to experience, view and use, sparks the mind into action and emotion as it eases the way forward.”

GALLERY | studio voll

Life is paradoxical, birth and death, love and distain. To find peace we navigate the dark, in us and around, aligning ourselves to the light of beauty, wherever, whoever, it may be. To surround oneself with beauty, to experience, view and use, sparks the mind into action and emotion as it eases the way forward. Through the terrain of doubt and the future of what’s possible, the creative mind builds, destroys and builds continuum, allowing us to choose and choose again. This is who we are and who we wish not to be, what we can change and create, and cannot. 

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

“To find peace we navigate the dark, in us and around, aligning ourselves to the light of beauty, wherever, whoever, it may be.”

Carl Barnett