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Artist Bio
What happens when your life takes a detour, you have time on your hands, not to mention magazines, scissors, and double-stick tape? You CUT-UP, of course! You create one-of-a-kind art cards, using what you have on-hand--no fancy papers or store-bought supplies--just the usual stuff of your life. And in the process of creating CUT-UPS,
you remember:
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Art, like life, has a way of unfolding in some amazing ways when we just stay focused on the moment at hand...cut just this piece now...then the next one, one moment, one piece at a time. - There is great joy and freedom in play, and quite often, what feels like play is actually our highest calling.
- It is not always our job to know the outcome; it is ours to be faithful to the process. Keep cutting up; the pieces will find their "homes".
- Art and life offer delightful surprises, finished "pieces" we would never have even imagined. Trust and surrender required.
- Paradoxes abound...in life and in art. What doesn't appear to make sense, can sometimes make more sense than ever!
- There is a natural flow in life and art, and when we are in it, we lose track of time and are completely connected to our truest selves. We are not in charge; we simply "hold the scissors".
- We always have enough of what we need, even when we may want more; we just have to decide what enough is. Abundance reigns!
- "Cutting up" usually brings us around to our truest selves, and we learn to laugh at our demons; sometimes the demons were us.
So then what?
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So then you send a few art cards to friends and family, just for fun, and they like them...say they make them smile. -
And then you make more and more and more and more, just because you love to make them...because you cannot not make them. -
And the more you make, the more want to be made. -
And before you know it, you have hundreds of cards, and you're on your ninth roll of double-stick tape! -
And then one day, someone says,"Sarah, you could sell these!" -
So you show them to lots of folks who love you, and they, of course, say, "Go for it!"
And then you expose these crazy, colorful pieces of your heART to other artists, card-lovers, and the business-savvy, even strangers, and they say, "Yes, go for it!"
And then one day you step out and YOU say, "Okay, they're here! CUT-UPS BY SARAH, The smART Card That's NOT for Everyone. Enjoy! And may you never forget how to CUT-UP!
Pablo Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist
once we have grown up."
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