Under One Sky from Helen Fraser

I made this artwork with the idea it would be around the other way, another painting about the container. Yet it just didn't look right. When I accepted this I turned it around and it worked. There was a sense of comfort in it being upside down. It was a bit perpexing at the time but I went with it. In hindsight, our world was turned upside down. I was being challenged to see life from a completely different persective.

I recall talking to one of my art mentors, Crista Cloutier who was living in France through the pandemic. Worried about not having time to focus on my art business, she suggested that the universe was calling me to serve as a therapist and that would help me become the artist that I'm meant to be. In time. I had to be patient. My world was topsy turvy and hyperfocused in one area. Yet there was so much satisfaction and meaning there. It felt like everything that I had learnt up to that point was being used in service of the community.

And since then I've clarified that my art practice is about serving the community. As a public artist, in public spaces. With community. Crista was right. Sometimes maybe we need to have our worlds shaken to the core to see the best in ourselves. What have you discovered since being shaken to the core? Who are you now? What do you stand for?