exploring the blueprint - simplify

Exploring the Blueprint:

If all else fails simplify.

notes + musings:

• IF ALL ELSE FAILS (simplify + just be)
• When life becomes overwhelming choose to simplify to find clarity. If you can reduce the number of things or thoughts you are trying to manage you begin to open space from calm in your life.
• Simplify things, thoughts, schedule, to-dos, etc.
• Simplify your art + your life:

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

charles mingus

The Blueprint is a list of concepts or codes that I believe life on earth is based on. In this series of posts I explore each item on the blueprint. I will return to these posts with updates as my experiences expand. 

BE WONDERFUL

♡

LATOYA

embrace creativity

Dear Creative Self,

I believe you are part of our main PURPOSE here. To create our reality whatever it may be. We have always been in contact, but I didn't name you, it was just what you did naturally. I believe you are not limited to art + making, you are so much more!

You are a CREATOR. We all are. Anything can become an ART not just "art" itself.

You love to brainstorm the possibilities. Sometimes the ideas flow more quickly than you can create or contemplate how it will be manifested. This FLOW is EMPOWERING. You are best nurtured by nature or while travelling. Something about these zones that wake you up each morning with a smile on your face and spark in your eye.

If you worry too much about execution + standards (usually those of others) you get discouraged. If you just put it down, let it out and let it go...you make space for it to EVOLVE. I am remembering to Trust. TO RELEASE CONTROL. Better to put something down without judgement rather than leaving blank pages out of fear. of what? Of it not looking how you invisioned it? Of the outcome deviating from the first inception? How it will be revieved? Remember these are not your concerns. No matter what you must CREATE!

I have denied you. I put restrictions on you. I really worried during one spell where I felt I lost you - it was bad timing because we were in the midsts of our architecture thesis. I have since recovered you, I have no plans of letting you out of my sight! I chose a career in design in an attempt to leverage the inspiration you draw in...all the ideas. I AM IN . Currently, You are coming in the form of collage (a craft I have always fallen back on) + words. You are meditation. You let go of thinking mind when you snip snip paste breathe (repeat). If u think too much u loose the FLOW. The collage carries over into all of this life. This Collaged Life of ours. Snip from this experience. Paste to this current reality. Arrange, rearrange. Reimagine possibilities. Of who we can be. Of who we are. BREATHE. You are WONDERFUL.

Love + Infinite Creativity

××

me

p.s. when you begin to worry. Remember that quote about life being a canvas. or call a friend. ;)

Healing

A few years ago I began to AWAKEN to concept that it is a healing journey we are all on. A remembering and embracing of WHOLENESS of self.

I believe that this healing directs us to our higher purpose + if we choose we will begin to remember (open to infinite memory) to access our unique roadmap...

Although I sometimes take the scenic loop road before I get back on the path, all is as it should be, because the map evolves...

The healing map I hold has been leading me to share the transformation that occurs when we CREATE SPACE INTENTIONALLY.

The Lenses I use on this journey are INTERIORS, IMAGINATION + INSPIRATION: from decluttering to decor, from being a listening ear to carving out time for art, from sharing to receiving on so many levels.

Healing is always a personal journey and it envolves all of us; the mind, the body, and the spirit.

Healing Involves:

• Regeneration - recovering faith in self.

• accepting ourselves as enough.

• healing wounds + forgiving self

• 3 Stages: Transmutation, transformation, and transfiguration

• A path the happiness+ Wellbeing

Mantra: I heal myself + others through Creativity

BE WONDERFUL

♡

LaToya

Resources :

The main theme here is being involved in your own healing; in taking responsibility for your own health and well-being. We all know that a HEALTHY lifestyle will give us the best possible chance of a healthy body,  but most of us are very good at ignoring this fact.

- Penelope Quest, the basics of reiki: a step by step guide to Healing with Reiki

Do it All Again

1// SOME THINGS (take time)

musings on kindly guiding yourself back to your vision:

I took this pic almost 3 years ago. It's a blurry pic, but here's the story.... We were in Tasmania as part of a 6 month road trip - J was touring his music, similar to what we are doing now.

While traveling my idea machine goes into full drive... IMAGINATION is one of my favourite dwelling places + this pic was me putting one of the ideas into action. This was was my desk for the day - a bench at a campsite that was being warmed by the sun on a chilly morning in Tasmania.

i decided i would create a series of little collages to illustrate a song J + I sing for Z, it is based on our early days as a family of 3 (but it all still applies).

I made these collages mostly in the front seat of the troop carrier with piles of scraps at my feet. (some things don't change, haha)

the collages are glued to used cereal + granola bar boxes that i ripped down to size.

It was meant to be a quick easy project...

2// This is a picture of one of the final drafts of collage with text/ lyrics in place.

After some back + forth, making a simple concept more complicated... I shelved this project. But it was always on my to do list to complete it.

Life happened... new ideas + new projects.

I continued to gently guide myself back...

3// walk with me to the ocean shore

put on the shoes we left at the door

salt in the air + sand at our feet

stop + chat with the people that we meet.

DO IT ALL AGAIN (a family tale)

now available in a square format

avaiable for purchase here.

Be Wonderful

♡

LaToya

p.s. keep pursuing your dreams