Reclaiming Our Inspiration,

With Debbie Rosas.

As a passionate 73 year old artist, I have grown up with Judy Chicago. She is the role model that helped me to push my own boundaries. She helped me to see art as more than something to simply hang upon a wall and instead; as something to awaken society and culture to issues that need to emerge from the shadows into the fullness of the truth of light. 

Waking society and culture is something I enjoy thoroughly. What may be unnerving for others is often comfortable for me. As a child, if I heard someone ask, “Why do you need to tell people things that make them uncomfortable?” My answer was always very simple to me, “Because that’s not art and I am an artist who loves life and explores the human body as art!”

Whether I’m looking at Judy Chicago’s experiments with Minimalist Art in the 1960s, or her revolutionary Feminist Art created in the 1970s, as well as her 1980s and 1990s Narratives; I always experience sensation in my physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual Whole Being and I desire to share the possibility of that experience with as many others as I might.

It is as a cascade of sensation altering my cellular and flesh and bone resonance. The four parts of being human, the compounding stimulation to my body, mind, emotions, and spirit feels like something the divine and sacred calls me to pay attention to for awakening society and culture to important messages through my own individual artistic development.

I enjoy the moment of being “blown open” to something new. I can only imagine what it must be like to have the creative initiative which Judy Chicago first experienced and continues to experience for decades. She continues to attend faithfully to that initiative and to convey meaningful narratives through imagery, color, texture, and varied mediums in time and space. 

My past experiences while studying Judy Chicago and her work changed the meaning of beauty for me, to expand into something that includes personal, professional, political, and even gendered identifications. I see Judy’s purpose as awakening in me and in other people, through artistic narratives; inspiration for new ways of thinking that challenge the status quo.

The many ways that I am able to look, see, read, feel, and sense artistic messages all around me and my world provides me with tremendous pleasure. I allow the communication I receive from all creative endeavors to “get underneath my skin,” and what I call in, out, and between my observation of what traditional society and culture believes to be a standard of truth.

As the climate of events in the world changes, I have no doubt Judy’s art will continue to be my inspiration. I also know my own creative endeavors, whether they be body + life movement practices, teaching, writing, dancing, meditating, podcasting will continue to evolve and include creativity to enhance and support an embodied awareness of life as art for everyone.

I didn’t first intend to become a creative. But living life in a body has taught me that we can go through life both as an artist, adding to beauty to the world and also as an inspiration, stimulating awakening in society and culture to bring every precious individual closer to experiencing their own glorious and magnificent one-of-a-kind creative human expression.

I can never know the narrative of any one individual, but what I do know is that seeking out and finding inspiration is a great way to awaken and evolve our creativity. I hope I can be that inspiration for people through all my Debbie Rosas Body + Life Education experiences that have begun and will continue for many more joyful and pleasurable years to come.

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