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When we’re down or in need of a change in our energy or our daily experience, one of the most immediate ways we can improve our world is to enhance our view. "Change Your View" is a revelation. After a transformational journey to Burning Man 2017, I came home and painted over many old canvases that weren’t inspiring joy. I realized on my travels that we have the ability and responsibility to change our perception of reality. Rather than needing to move or change jobs, or do something drastic, we can simply change what we look at everyday. This painting inspires joy in me everyday. Every time I walk in the door, it lifts me up. What can you do to change your view?

I have never seen artmaking as a choice, but rather as a necessary and obvious part of living. What I am creating is always changing, but my commitment to creativity is an inevitable constant. The way I see it, the process of artmaking helps to integrate the endless information coming into the brain with the already present and always working imagination. It helps to process past experiences and vision future ones, all the while giving my mind, body and spirit a pathway to actually BE in the present moment of creation. As I paint, I notice my breathing slows down. I enter a zone of concentration that last hours longer than I can concentrate on any other activity. Even though my left arm is doing most of the work and I am often for hours...