Everything the Light Touches

I'm wandering around Provence this week, finding all the places the light touches. September was a rough month with more than a few curveballs and I'm looking at this trip, even though it was planned way in advance of all that, as a recalibration of sorts.

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I’m challenging myself to take it all in without the pressure to produce anything from it. Letting the inspiration be just that—inspiring.

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I don’t know yet how this place will show up in the work, but I do know that I tend to carry the places I’ve been with me. They show up on the canvas sometimes in ways I’m not expecting.

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I've learned over the years that I'm the kind of person who needs to process travel before I can turn it into something. I used to travel with a sketchbook and feel the overwhelming pressure to document everything in the moment. To create immediately.

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Now, I'm trying a slower approach. Taking in the inspiration as it comes and letting it guide the work without me forcing it.

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Noticing for now, everything else will come.

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Back soon with whatever I end up finding,
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-Shelby