It took me half of my adult life to feel good about myself. I mean really good. Just for a second, I felt stuck, sometimes ugly, fat, and even disconnected.
I rushed through life, pushing myself to succeed, and despite all I had accomplished, I still wasn’t enough. The realization that I had forgotten to take myself on this wonderful journey called life set in motion several changes. After a decade, being a television journalist just wasn’t enough anymore. I wanted to fill the void inside me – ease the gently aching pain of my inner child.
Years of education, becoming a mother to a wonderful son, and going through some personal processes finally got me here – diving into a whole new chapter of my life, paving a different path of being human, and looking forward to sharing personal revelations with the world through art. But what can I expect from this study of «art and education» that I have begun at HSLU? First and foremost, I will constantly be engaged with art. Also, I will be able to use all the resources: working space, materials, contacts, and exchange with other artists. But don‘t let yourselves get fooled by shiny or glamorous pictures.
Some of my pictures below were actually taken at a very difficult time when I was going through a life changing process having panic attacks. It was like bearing a heart of iron in a body made out of glass, a minute away from getting shattered into a thousand pieces or worse; disappear. I was truly and unforgettably hurt and exhausted at the time. I thought I was never going to heal.
Today I am a lot closer to myself. I have learned that every negative feeling is easily changed into a good one and the other way around. All it takes is a conscious decision. And if it still wasn’t one yet, I would make one.
I hope you wanna enjoy, love, laugh and live life to the fullest as I aspire to. Even though sometimes it scares the shit out of you.
Yours dearly
Sue
