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I am a multi-disciplinary artist, ground breaker, visionary, and paradigm shifter based on the West Coast of the United States. With that said, my soul is where my heart is, and in that I am currently engaged with a co-creative process with artists in different cities and countries I consider myself not only a citizen of the world, but an adventurer within the cosmos.

 

 I value integrity, creative freedom, beauty, nature, and playfulness among many other nuances and poetic impressions.

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As a multi-disciplinary creative I find that the mediums that seek to give expression through me tend to breath in and out of each other informing the evolution of my life purpose as an artist.

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That is to say that the ground work from exploration in one medium informs the process of another medium.  There may be a several year stretch where one medium is silent, with the exception of the performer and the dance maker.

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My emphasis has never been pursuit of fame or fortune, but pursuit of spiritual, emotional, intellectual growth along with community building. Art has been the primary means for pursuing these goals and I deem it a spiritual and soulful process replacing the container of religion.

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Always fresh.

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It is my "soul's code"

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I rarely repeat myself, but there are themes that tend to repeat themselves, and in recent years, I've set at the task to explore a singular theme for many moons. Sometimes a vision will simmer for five years to a decade in my minds eye before the moment presents itself as the moment to manifest the waking dream.

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The range of expression that has flowed through me runs the gamut reflecting how my personal path has been a means to integrate a multifaceted identity and gender flow as I invested 23 years of intention to overcome the effects of extreme trauma.

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These effects are chronicled in my memoir project with two titles: Brutiful Outsider Art: Creativity as a Vehicle for Metamorphosis, Catharsis, and Change and My Multifaceted Wonder Order. 

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Such is the complexity of DID, integration, and that dance which is now behind me.

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Whole, complete, am I.

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I acknowledge I am a "lucky one" and give thanks for the gift of thrive.

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While my early work was much about art shamanism and transposing shadow energy into dynamic universal metaphor intended to expand consciousness and cultivate awareness, at present, the expression deepens and widens as fresh textures seek to make their way through me.

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At this point in my career I am interested in expanding the concept of what art is as well as the purpose and seek to  manifest an integrative  "playfreshional" lifestyle that is heart centered and community oriented shedding all the bits and bobs of how humans get their basic needs met that harm the planet and nurture the finest qualities of our nature creating trans-formative conduits for the rascally, less savory, monster parts of the human condition.

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It is my intentional to let this endeavor, of starting a small online place of commerce/community/spirit/ethics/soul/governance/learning be a part of nurturing this vision.

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In terms of projects completed: as an indie author I've published under the pen name Ginger Freedom; recent solo exhibitions in Vienna, New York, and Santa Barbara were under the auspices of Dylan & Friends, and as a dance maker, I founded a modern dance company, SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre in 2006 and allowed it to morph into an international arts collective coined "ArtBark International" in 2012.

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In the five years ArtBarkers have co-created together our adventures have enabled us to share our magic with audiences in California, New York, Connecticut, and abroad in Vienna, Paris, and Ljubljana.  In our view, we have successfully shifted the paradigm in how the arts organize which is a bold step away from hierarchy and a return to circular, lateral, collaborative and co-operative organization with contemporary organizational design (principles of conscious leadership) integrated into our maker lifestyles.

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