Welcome back to Encounters - Season 2!
Welcome back, Encounters community! To kick off Season 2 of Encounters, I thought I would share with you the inspiration for this project to help set the stage for the next chapter of our Encounters story. Stay tuned to Encounters this season as we have a great line-up of beautifully inspiring and deliciously unique 9 to 5'er artists including fearless ballerinas, an engineer/cake designer/entrepreneur, and a flight attendant whose passion for song and music is shared with all the exotic places that she visits. I am also excited to share a few creative creations of my own that have been inspired by the amazing people and places I have Encountered this past year.
And now, without further ado, I present our first Encounter of the season. Enjoy!
Thank you to the arts for being food for the soul.
Its transformative power is nothing beyond magic. I am so grateful to my family for raising me with an appreciation and exposure to all forms of art - dance, theatre, music, visual art, literature - and for raising me in New York City, the epicenter of diversity in all regards.
Human expression in the arts is one of the most beautiful things in the world to me because it is simultaneously intimate and universal. How one can write a story about their own personal life and it speaks the narrative of the lives of so many others. How the guitar diddy that someone plucks away can tug on the heartstrings of a crowd. How the body of one dancer can reach to the limbs of an audience. How a capsule of an image can open the eyes of the past, present, and future.
Art stems from the individual but it speaks volumes to the masses. That is how I feel my connection is to life and to this world. Through song, through dance, through acting, through writing. I share these pieces of me and in return, I feel whole.
I have been pinned as the dramatic type, which I can understand, but I essentially will always have to argue that life is dramatic. Drama is based on life therefore, life must be dramatic in its essence. Death, heartbreak, love, birth all happen in reality and in strange, oddly higher power planned ways.
People are characters. We are the characters that we read.
My goal is to embrace the drama and characters of life through my blog, Encounters.