Off the Path
Watercolor and ink on paper; 12”x16”; 2020
I am not a “Five Year Plan” kind of person. While I always knew I wanted to be an artist and adventurer, those things don’t really have a clearly defined path. I’d feel blind panic when people would ask what my plans were because I didn’t have a solid answer, and the answers I did have weren’t the answers people generally wanted to hear. I knew I wanted to go to college and learn as much about art as I could, and this is a decision I have never regretted. An art degree didn’t exactly set me up on a clear-cut career path, and I’ve had plenty of people look down on me for not taking a more practical (ie: lucrative) path, but the things I learned have been invaluable to me. I didn’t learn how to do a job; I learned how to become the person I’d always wanted to be. I used to feel shame because my path didn’t look the way a lot of people thought it should, but the older I get the more I realize that what you do is so much less important than who you are, and that fulfillment comes from allowing who you are determine the path you take.
Watercolor and ink on paper; 12”x16”; 2020
I am not a “Five Year Plan” kind of person. While I always knew I wanted to be an artist and adventurer, those things don’t really have a clearly defined path. I’d feel blind panic when people would ask what my plans were because I didn’t have a solid answer, and the answers I did have weren’t the answers people generally wanted to hear. I knew I wanted to go to college and learn as much about art as I could, and this is a decision I have never regretted. An art degree didn’t exactly set me up on a clear-cut career path, and I’ve had plenty of people look down on me for not taking a more practical (ie: lucrative) path, but the things I learned have been invaluable to me. I didn’t learn how to do a job; I learned how to become the person I’d always wanted to be. I used to feel shame because my path didn’t look the way a lot of people thought it should, but the older I get the more I realize that what you do is so much less important than who you are, and that fulfillment comes from allowing who you are determine the path you take.
Watercolor and ink on paper; 12”x16”; 2020
I am not a “Five Year Plan” kind of person. While I always knew I wanted to be an artist and adventurer, those things don’t really have a clearly defined path. I’d feel blind panic when people would ask what my plans were because I didn’t have a solid answer, and the answers I did have weren’t the answers people generally wanted to hear. I knew I wanted to go to college and learn as much about art as I could, and this is a decision I have never regretted. An art degree didn’t exactly set me up on a clear-cut career path, and I’ve had plenty of people look down on me for not taking a more practical (ie: lucrative) path, but the things I learned have been invaluable to me. I didn’t learn how to do a job; I learned how to become the person I’d always wanted to be. I used to feel shame because my path didn’t look the way a lot of people thought it should, but the older I get the more I realize that what you do is so much less important than who you are, and that fulfillment comes from allowing who you are determine the path you take.