De existere et facere (On Being and Doing)

The difference between being and doing, and the lucky juncture where they collide, is the subject of this post. To be more specific, being an artist and making art are not always the same. I was making art long before I called myself an artist. By art I simply mean, things made for pleasure. Creating is second nature to me, and it's only now that I've begun to seriously attempt to market the things I make and hope there is an audience that wants them.

I have begun to ask that my being and my doing intersect, so I can love what I am being as much as I love what I am doing. I believe that real satisfaction comes when we are being how we want to be (more so than doing what we love to do). I also believe that what we require for our satisfaction will change over time. Right now, for me, it's lumos.

My dream for lumos is that it will become an artists' collective, and a space for people who make art to make money and be inspired. I hope that it will become a place where trinkets are valued, and where we offset the piling of things into the landfill through clever solutions which are sustainable to consumer and artist alike. One such example is the refillable journal. Any journal refilled with paper for $5 plus s&h. Simply remove the binding, compost it, and send back the cover boards.

This is a call for smalltime artists with clever ideas. Be how you love to be, do what you love to do.