Making And Collecting

April 10, 2022 Carl Barnett

“Bringing joy and resolve through beauty and the creative mind.”

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

The relationship between object, space, and person is a telling one, speaking to who we are, our human condition of needs and wants. Making and collecting is a means of communicating, giving weight to our transitory experience of living. Bringing joy and resolve through beauty and the creative mind.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Laura Kastin | SENTIENT**

“A rising tide, raises all boats. A creative mind, inspires.”

**NOURISH** **| Liadain Warwick Smith | Kathryn Robinson-Millen**

Within the creative arenas are the seeds of possibility, easing life forward through the salve of beauty and our beautiful mind. We have the capacity for change, and to uplift. A rising tide, raises all boats. A creative mind, inspires.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Benjamin Provo**

Each Creative Endeavor

April 6, 2022 Carl Barnett

“Each creative endeavor opens up possibilities by way of beauty, resolve and insight.”

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

All creative gestures are conversations, they can be seen as mirrors, windows, and doors to who we are and wish to become: our fears, joys and visions of the future coming. Each creative endeavor opens up possibilities by way of beauty, resolve and insight.

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.

“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.