Life In Colour Designs

01/15/2025

Enjoying time with patterns!
Bonnie Christine

01/03/2025

How fun and amazing work.

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04/05/2024

Who doesn't struggle with hiding parts of themselves?
Especially protecting our inner child, the part responsible for curiosity and wonder and awe...
What do we lose from holding that part back?
It's where art comes from. That part is curiosity, the seeker of beauty.
We keep her safe from corruption, but we keep ourselves stunted from the full expression of our youth.
I'm choosing faith in her resilience, that her search for wonder is stronger than the harm.
I vow to always set those parts of me free that may discover beauty.

"What We Hide" April 2024 self-portrait

11/15/2023

“You’re a slt and a w***e for the algorithm. I couldn’t do it anymore. You can never feed it enough. You start out making art, and hoping that the door will open. You’re looking for that viral moment so it opens up the door and you can do the thing full time. But you start to compromise just to get the door to open: guessing what it wants, debasing yourself, alienating yourself. Until you’re not even in service to your art anymore. You’re in service to the algorithm. Deep down every artist just wants to be seen. Everyone does. And that’s how it controls you. The algorithm makes you behave in a certain way, create in a certain way, in exchange for being seen. And if something can change what you do, it can change who you are. And I didn’t sign up for that. I didn’t sign up to become a content creator. Art was supposed to be a way for me to be in search of, in service to, in community with. It was my ministry. Art was supposed to be my ministry.”

08/23/2022

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Over the past few days since saying goodbye to my foster son River, I've wandered my house aimlessly making myself look at the toys scattered throughout. Sat in his room re-folding his pajamas that he grew out of months ago. Read Where the Wild Things Are to myself, aloud.

Q: Why do those things if they make me hurt so much?
A: Facing your fears can make you love them.

It's called re-storying, and it's how I manage my grief.
Acknowledge that you had something beautiful, and that you will yet have something beautiful, and especially...
Life inevitably fills in the gaps between the having & the losing, the wanting & the getting. If I can't honor what a gift it is to live in between all those things, I have no life at all.

I find pain beautiful, but that isn't the same as not feeling pain at all. I feel it so grievously that I'm angry and hurt. Still, it's a wonder that humans can feel that much at all, good or bad. It's a small miracle everyday that I get to live so fully that I can hurt that deeply. So I keep doing things that hurt, because the more I do them, the braver I become. The more beauty I see in it...
..Or maybe, the more beauty I create in it.

"Wings Will Always Try to Fly" self-portrait August 2022
Ltd Edition prints available: brookeshaden.com/prints

07/30/2022

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11/24/2020

Love it 💕

06/21/2020

Beautiful and amazing!

Using her Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Analiza spent hours taking pictures of ants walking along a piece of string in her garden carrying drops of water.