The Creative Will

April 3, 2022 Carl Barnett

“Through the creative gesture, we map our way, tying the past to the present, giving weight to the now.”

Through the creative mind we express ourselves, resolving and soothing our difficulties of being human. It is through beauty and nature that the human condition is eased, shining a light onto the path of the future possible. Through the creative gesture, we map our way, tying the past to the present, giving weight to the now.

Within the creative mind is a vastness of possibility, creating resolve, and easing the mind and body. Though challenging times we are in, and a future that seems daunting, it is the creative will that shows us the way, shining a light and ringing a bell, in a world of concern and of beauty.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Gabriel Shuldiner**

We have the capacity for greatness, without a doubt we’ve proven this. In order to build the new and resolve what is no longer serving us, we need to know who we are, our imperfections, beauty and blind spots. Change can happen when we see what is needed, through introspection and the will of action: to do better, to be better, to try.

Mapping And Equanimity

March 31, 2022 Carl Barnett

“The creative endeavor is a means of mapping and equanimity.”

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT | Gaia Starr | Liadain Warwick Smith | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Carl Barnett**

The creative endeavor is a means of mapping and equanimity. Finding joy, seeing the ugly, and creating beauty. It’s not only about creating, which satiates a need to express but what the creating can do, beyond object into insight, inspiration, and resolve, our internal compass that pushes and pulls, towards the way that is, and isn’t.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Kathryn Robinson-Millen**

“We are creative beings, born of energy, consuming and producing till the energy leaves the body.”

We have lost our way from who we are, built a maze of walls and doors. Dug out who we are from the onset of the industrial revolution. We are creative beings, born of energy, consuming and producing till the energy leaves the body. What we do with this energy, our creativity, is key, how we live our lives: the why before the what. We are intrinsic to beauty, energy, and creation. This is who we are, and what we innately do: the possibilities of being human and our humanity.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| VULPE | SENTIENT | Liadain Warwick Smith**

“To resolve the issues at hand we must create new systems, taking cues from who we are, and nature itself.”

**NOURISH Gallery** | Gaia Starr | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Liadain Warwick Smith | SENTIENT

The creative endeavor opens up doors into the future and to ourselves, allowing us to see with clarity what’s before us and within. To see injustice and beauty existing in the same realm of living life and finding purpose. We are creative beings, we create and destroy, find a better way and repeat. To resolve the issues at hand we must create new systems, taking cues from who we are, and nature itself. The issues we see stem from who we are and the machine we’ve created, which speaks little to the human condition. To do better, we must be better, at seeing ourselves and the impact we have. Living our lives, deeper, and fuller, through the creative mind.

“We are creative beings, what we’ve created we can recreate in a better way.”

If we are to change the reality of today, we must see who we are within it, difficult or not, while we create the changes that we need to see. Who are we in the bigger picture and beneath the lens of introspection, is what we need to be exploring, acknowledging our hand in the cause and effect. We are creative beings, what we’ve created we can recreate in a better way. Creativity and time are not linear, each can be manipulated by action of will. Though time is finite for each of us, creativity and time are links in a chain, influenced by what came before it, not to be broken, only altered. With this we find opportunities to learn and expand on who we are, and where we’ve been, offering clarity on where we need to go.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT | Laura Kastin | Liadain Warwick Smith | VULPE | Carl Barnett | Gaia Starr**

“The difficulties we see are those we’ve created, and those we can alter through the creative mind, responsibility, and the human nature of will.”

Though the future always seems daunting it’s the here and now that gives way to change, through acts of building legislation that counter our being human. The difficulties we see are those we’ve created, and those we can alter through the creative mind, responsibility, and the human nature of will.

Beauty has a place within all that we encounter, all we create and choose to see.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Liadain Warwick Smith | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Carl Barnett**

“Though the future always seems daunting it’s the here and now that gives way to change”

Beauty And Energy

March 9, 2022 Carl Barnett

“We all have the capacity for good and for ill, to correct our wrongs and create the beauty we came from.”

Though difficult at times to see, we are the manifestation of beauty and energy, the universe, Earth, and the history of our evolution. We all have the capacity for good and for ill, to correct our wrongs and create the beauty we came from. This is our human nature, our humanity in creative motion, inspiring with empathy, passion, and our need to persevere.

Beauty and Nature

February 28, 2022 Carl Barnett

“Beauty and nature are the counters to our contemporary ills.”

Beauty and nature are the counters to our contemporary ills. They mirror who we are, inspiring better living, resolve, and hope through the creative mind and the action of will. It is through beauty and nature that our minds and bodies are put to ease, allowing intuition to be heard and curiosity explored, expanding possibility in the present moment, and hurling future.

Within the ceramic work of Kathryn Robinson-Millen, is the exploration of form and utility, how the vessel is to be used and enjoyed through arranging of natural materials. The joy of beauty, form, and physical engagement. Kathryn’s architectural-inspired forms are contrasts of angles and painterly gestures. They are not merely utilitarian, but function to inspire engagement of the eye, hand, and emotion.

Beauty And How We live

February 24, 2022 Carl Barnett

“We are, in our intentions to move forward, heroic, extending an empathetic hand and knowing ear.”

If we’ve learned anything from this pandemic, it’s our need for substance and purpose: love, beauty, and joy. The importance of how we live and knowing who we are. It’s been a telling time, one of loss, mental strain, and questioning who we are, and where we wish to go in our lives. Words lack the ability to express true emotion as we attempt to discuss this troubling era, and the words we read seem massive on the pages we dare to read. We are, in our intentions to move forward, heroic, extending an empathetic hand and knowing ear.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Carl Barnett | Gaia Starr**

“Beauty and nature are intrinsic to who we are, our intuitive selves born from the stars, roots, and water.”

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Liadain Warwick Smith | Laura Kastin | Carl Barnett**

Here, beauty may seem contrary, but in fact, a necessary salve that speaks to our needs, transcending sorrow, fear, and doubt. It allows us to settle into the comfort of who we are, what we know to be true and everlasting. Beauty and nature are intrinsic to who we are, our intuitive selves born from the stars, roots, and water. It is beauty, no matter how one sees it, that pierces the eye and mirrors the self, soothing if not for a moment, the body and the mind. It is beauty that reminds us who we are, and what we can achieve if we pause, just for a moment, and see within and around us.

What beauty does is why we collect and even create, it is the universal language that binds all cultures and transcends time, going back before language defined what beauty is, and is not.