Curiosity Of Forward Thinking

May 21, 2023 Carl Barnett

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Carl Barnett - Untitled painting**

Why we create and collect tells the story of who we are and where we’re going. The equanimity of living life, and being perfectly imperfect. Our intuitive draw towards beauty, wonder, magic, and our curiosity of forward thinking.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Beverly Morrison - Yugen Series No. 114**

The Creative Arenas Enhance The Ways We Live

May 3, 2023 Carl Barnett

The creative arenas enhance the ways we live. It’s in the books we read, the objects we collect, our music, and the homes we live within.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| OANDI - Finial Vessels**

We are surrounded by inspiration and beauty, by creative resolve that eases our minds and bodies, building a future of possibility, and moments of joy.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| bicyclette - Trestle Console**

A Bigger Picture

April 23, 2023 Carl Barnett

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Katheryn Robinson-Millen - Ceramic vessel | Carl Barnett - Untitled painting.**

It is a bigger picture that I am pulled toward, who we are in a deeper way, our intuition and creativity, the why before the what. Through our social structuring, we’ve compressed who we are, silenced and abstracted for the sake of order. It is through the creative mind we see who we are, beyond the gauze of social doctrine: beauty and the perfectly imperfect.

Through Creating And Collecting

April 16, 2023 Carl Barnett

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Laurence Elle Graux - Lifting the Spirit - Glazed ceramic.**

We build our lives through the creative endeavor, expressing who we are and how we wish to live. Through creating, and collecting the work of others, we build our homes and ourselves, fulfilling resilience, empathy, and connection. It is here, within the light of creativity, we see a bigger picture of beauty: me, us, and them.

**NOURISH Gallery** **- Carl Barnett - Untitled (Then This) - Acrylic, charcoal, on canvas.**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Jon Hudson | CONTINUUM UNCARVED BLOCK XXII: MESA MT - Granite**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Laura Kastin - Bi-level Vessel - Glazed Stoneware.**

Why we create and collect is our intuitive pull toward beauty, wonder, and magic. Our means of storytelling and sense-making. The why before the what.

**NOURISH Gallery** **- Carl Barnett - Untitled - Acrylic, on canvas.**

The Truest Self

April 14, 2023 Carl Barnett

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