scrapbooks and collages made from magazines
"I guess this is LIFE"
"I am Jesus Christ"
As I have started my "career" as a creative I have battled with the ever so common feeling of self doubt & "imposter syndrome." Does the hard work and mental blocks I have encountered on the way to a good idea mean I am not fit for all this? Is this harder than it needs to be because of me?
A piece of advice that I have been given from multiple different books and mentors has been to be more like a child. Little Maura. I can't help but tear up thinking of her. She oozed creativity and walked with confidence. I feel like I need to hold a wake in her honor, where has she gone?
Little Maura loved walking up and down the aisles of the craft store, exploring the paint, markers, fabric, and paper waiting to be turned into something beautiful. She collected her own arsenal of supplies to cut up and craft together with glue and gems and rhinestones. Little Maura loved boldly and created passionately.
One weekend home, I found a box of Little Maura's stuff. I cried at what I found. Scrapbooks. Pages and pages full. I still scrapbook, I've just traded my fashion sticker books for old magazines. My glimmer pencils for articles.
I don't have to grieve Little Maura, she is still here, with me. Her creativity growing with me.
