A Creative Mind And Fulfilled Life

June 28, 2023 Carl Barnett

Living a fulfilled life is as varied as we are, who we are and where we are living. Our commonality is the creative mind, our ability to resolve the old and imagine the newness that enables a purposeful life. We may be bound to DNA and our lineage of being human, but it is the creative mind that has no true buffer, nor end of road. We have proven to have the capacity to destroy and renew in cyclical form, as order and chaos. This is our being human, fallible, and beautiful. Perfectly imperfect.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Beverly Morrison**

If nature and the universe are our start and end, it is this vastness that reflects who we are, our ability to expand, contract and change, inspiring through energy and beauty. It is our inherent ability to create that reflects our natural way of being, our intuitive cartographer, natural guide and muse. Through the creative mind, DNA and our capacity for empathy, we build and refurbish the paths we walk upon.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Concrete Poetics**

Creator And Created

June 24, 2023 Carl Barnett

Nature and the creative endeavor reflect who we are, beyond the physical body into the realm of original source, the cosmos: the stars, planets, and the even deeper unknown, black holes. The created and creator, maker and made.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Liadain Warwick Smith - Matte Vessel With Scallops**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| bicyclette - Sawhorse Dining Table**

Nature And Beauty

June 20, 2023 Carl Barnett

The beauty in life is the meaning we bring to it, the creative languages, nature, those we support, and those we love. Beauty is the salve that vacillates our longevity, supports our will, shines a light for waning hope.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT - Nature Edge Table**

What Matters. Purpose And Beauty.

June 6, 2023 Carl Barnett

In the thick of adversity, one finds what matters, what uplifts and brings us to a place of clarity that eases the way forward. This profundity sheds light upon our darkest times, allowing us to see through the fog of mind and emotion, smoothing the truths of reality so that we may best move on. It is through times of hardships that we find who we are, where we see our strengths and better our weaknesses. To be still within the midst of beauty, be it nature, words or the hand created, provides us with the deepest opportunities of respite and resolve: pulling deep the intuitive universe within.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Carl Barnett | SENTIENT | Gaia Starr | Oxford Street Furniture**

What matters is within our attention, despite the whirling that may surround us. What matters is what we feel, that matters, what we hold onto and perpetuate in our minds and days of doing. This is not a difficult task, it is held within us, our ability to reason, to see beauty within the ugly, to try and start again. Within our difficulties are the truest pockets of beauty, if only we choose what matters in every moment that we’ve created, stepping back and merely seeing. To capture beauty in the moments that matter stills it to memory, creating fortitude for the long road ahead.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| John Barlow Hudson**

By Nature I Am A Creator And Collector

May 25, 2023 Carl Barnett

By nature, I am a creator and collector, contributor and believer in a bigger picture of purpose. The why before the what, and the meaning in life. It is my strongest belief that through the creative mind and endeavor, we thrive, creating change and easing our ways of being human. This is why we create and collect, to soothe and inform through beauty and the creative languages.