Nature And The Creative Endeavor

July 24, 2023 Carl Barnett

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Liadain Warwick Smith | SENTIENT | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | VULPE**

Nature and the creative endeavor are both a reflection of who we are and our place within a bigger picture of living. It is within these two we learn who we are, our intuition, biology, mind, body and the equanimity of beauty. We are created from the stars, born from water and nurturing soil. It is through nature and creativity we find our purpose, build our meaning and rest in the knowledge that sustains and pulls us. Nature and the creative endeavor echo our histories, vibrating in body and rippling time.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Oxford Street Furniture**

Our Digging, Our Sifting, Our Trying

July 23, 2023 Carl Barnett

It is I believe, an inherent aspect of creating to be a mirror and salve to who we are. The beautiful ugly of being human. A means to communicate, resolve and bring joy through beauty. This is who we are, our means toward what's possible, our digging, our sifting, our trying.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Kathryn Robinson-Millen**

"We don't ask to be eternal beings, but we ask that things do not lose all their meaning"

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Laura Kastin | VULPE | SENTIENT**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Laura Kastin | SENTIENT**

What We Think About And Do

July 20, 2023 Carl Barnett

**Image** **| Carl Barnett Design/Studio**

Who we are is a constant conversation in our minds and in our actions, manifested through beauty and the creative endeavor. What we think about we bring about, what we hold, we desire. This is why we create and collect. The why before the what.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Jon Barlow Hudson**

To build the future possible and to reach our hopeful potential, we must surround ourselves with beauty and inspiration, the people, places, and things that uplift and inform the desires we hold in the present, how we see ourselves, and who we attempt to become.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT | Liadain Warwick Smith**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT | Liadain Warwick Smith | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | VULPE**

Who we are is who we say we are, as we act out our narrative in our minds and the passing of our days.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Laura Kastin | VULPE | Carl Barnett**

Conversations Of Art

July 19, 2023 Carl Barnett

All creative gestures are conversations, they can be seen as mirrors, windows, and doors to who we are and wish to become: our fears, joys and visions of the future coming. Each creative endeavor opens up possibilities by way of beauty, resolve and insight.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Gabriel J. Shuldiner**

Who We Are

July 18, 2023 Carl Barnett

How we live in our homes is part of the process of creating and living our lives. A means to uplift, ease and build the future possible. Through beauty and the creative endeavor, we thrive in the moment, deeper, wider, and onward.

Art, no matter the category is both mirror and window, a storyteller of our human experience. It both excavates and soothes emotion, as it exposes a different prismatic view of living life: who we are, where we’re going, beauty, and the equanimous.