Who We Are

July 18, 2023 Carl Barnett

How we live in our homes is part of the process of creating and living our lives. A means to uplift, ease and build the future possible. Through beauty and the creative endeavor, we thrive in the moment, deeper, wider, and onward.

Art, no matter the category is both mirror and window, a storyteller of our human experience. It both excavates and soothes emotion, as it exposes a different prismatic view of living life: who we are, where we’re going, beauty, and the equanimous.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Liadain Warwick Smith**

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Jon Barlow Hudson**

Nature And Art

July 13, 2023 Carl Barnett

To live with nature and the creative endeavors of others simplifies life to the basic elements of who we are, softening the noise of contemporary life. This is a mirror to who we are, a window to who we try to become.

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

Our Stories We Tell

July 12, 2023 Carl Barnett

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Carl Barnett - Untitled painting.**

In a world predicated on homogeny, it is easy to lose our voice in the stories we tell, opting for abbreviated versions that fit the narrative of sameness. We lose our storied identity when we allow our voice to be drowned out by the hive. Rather than choosing our words, our stories are ghostwritten by history and doubt. To be one’s own author is to know who we are, see where we are, and map the challenging terrain forward. Writing chapters as makers of time, change, and progression.

It is through the process of creating, we build an authentic life of purpose and contribution. A life of beauty and fulfillment, though difficult as life is, attainable through the ongoing process of self-awareness, creative endeavor, and the persistence of trying.

**NOURISH Gallery |** **Laurence Elle Groux - Lifting The Spirit.**

Nature And The Creative Endeavor

July 6, 2023 Carl Barnett

Nature and the creative endeavor are both a reflection of who we are and our place within the bigger picture of living. It is within this we learn who we are, our intuition, biology, mind and body. We are made of stardust, born from nature and as complex and beautiful as the universe that surrounds us.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Kathryn Robinson Millen**

Art Is Both Mirror And Window

July 1, 2023 Carl Barnett

Art, no matter the category is both mirror and window, a storyteller of our human experience. It excavates and eases emotion, as it exposes a different prismatic view of living life: who we are, where we’re going, beauty, and the equanimous.