2024 Intentions Set and Reminder Acknowledged
2023 was quite the year for travel. I took 23 trips, visiting 25 American cities in 96 days of work and adventure away from home. I always try to find a contemporary art gallery, museum, or botanical garden to visit when I travel. I discovered 16 this year, many for the first time.
This practice inspired me to return to my art making after setting the brushes down to have time for the Metro Council work in 2015. All people are creative beings as we are made. In its many forms, art can express truths, feelings, and perspectives that provide a life of quality and purpose.
Over the last eight years, I continued sketching and some watercolor and picked up a new obsession: iPhone photography.
I will select some photos from our adventures for subjects of a new series of paintings.
My intention cards for the year have been selected and will guide 2024 forward.
Image background: Mariah Robertson, photographic print on metallic paper. - National Museum of Women in The Arts, Washington DC - 12/2022
Intention cards from series by Janna Leoff