Welcome to the Shadows Illuminated blog!
I have created this blog to share about my journey as an independent artist and how this has culminated into the body of work that is Shadows Illuminated. My hope is that by sharing all the facets that have gone into creating and bringing this art to the world, others may learn from my own experiences. My story is full of shadows and light in a continual dance of symbiosis and illustrates how courage and devotion can lead to creative contributions and personal completion.
I am human. I am an independent artist who has been walking on a path of devotional service for almost seven years. This path has simultaneously been blessed with gifts and fraught with hardship. I have experienced true abundance and I have faced starvation, and at times both at once. I have been a creative force in action, generating a substantial body of published work and (despite any shortcomings) have been highly committed to expressing myself through art.
All long the way, my path has illuminated many shadows, both within community as within myself. Many of my future blog entries will reveal such shadows and will demonstrate how I responded and grew by facing and accepting them. As the complete Shadows Illuminated body of work shows, I hope also that this blog will show what becomes possible when we are willing to embrace our own shadows.
Aside from providing storytelling value to the independent artist (and really to anyone who can glean similar benefit from these entries), I also intend to publish more detailed information about how I completed specific requirements, such as how I formulated and inspired community around my project, how I utilized technology to create and market my works, how I approached entities (such as venue and members of the press), and all the lessons I learned through these processes.
These entries will also include non-editorial correspondence with entities (businesses and organizations) both to illuminate to others what this communication process can look like, as well as to provide value to the entities themselves, be that the value of looking great and getting additional positive exposure or the value of illuminating shadows so that they might refine their own processes. Absent any editorial reviews of such correspondence, I will be making no judgments about the organizations or even my own behaviors, just showing what it actually looked like as a point of reference. I continue to learn to refine my own communication styles to become more effective in working with organizations in promoting my independent art.
Thank you for staying tuned to the blog. I look forward to sharing on this continued journey!
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