Maybe you have spent the last year continuing on the set journey of your life, but more likely you haven’t. I didn’t. The last 14 months have been a time of evaluation, reflection, and truths. The social mechanisms once used to distract us from ourselves were pushed away and there was plenty of time to stand there and think about what we had done or what we wanted to do, and no one was really watching what we were doing. The phrase “you do you” became life. I did me.
I moved into a house of dreams with strange additions and endless potential, realized audiobook memoirs were a way for me to continue to study other people’s lives and thought about art quite a bit more than I made art. I found gratitude and energy to complete some painting commissions for beloved collectors. I started jobs, made pottery, wasted time on social media, wandered countless miles on foot and drove my beloved truck while the world around me was quiet enough that I could plainly hear my heart, and I quit jobs and found even more gratitude for the painting commissions I get to make for beloved collectors.
The noise is coming back and I am ready. The sunshine and the warmth and the energy is a welcomed force. I am working on the biggest painting of my life - a 165 foot wide commissioned mural - with the help of people I love too much, on the same street as the house once filled with friends who became my family, about a place that has made me “me”.
There are paintings ready to be uploaded to this site, dresses I can’t wait to wear, and an understanding of my role in this time that I am ready to fill. I wish you well too.
If you’d like to follow along with mural progress, I’m keeping my instagram stories stacked at: @katyannfox with an option to just tune into the mural stuff by watching the “mural edition”.