Painting is About You Seeing You

As artists, it’s easy to let recognition, rejection, awards, and sales tell us whether our work is “good.” In this episode, I share a very recent experience with a juried art show—one that stirred up all those very human questions about being seen, being recognized, and wondering whether anyone really understands what we’re doing. But Spirit had another lesson waiting for me. Our work isn’t validated because it wins an award, and it isn’t validated because someone buys it. We create because s...