This weekend was a beautiful moment of several visions I’ve been holding being brought to life!

One was the vision Maggie Ruth Haaland and I have long been dreaming into for an event on my patio that created a soft space to share our art and invite community connection, rest, mutual aid, and reflection with the support of live music from our talented pals, herbal footbaths and gluten free baked goods made by Maggie, and dahlias grown by local pals. You can learn more about it and see more pictures from the event here.

The other was a vision I’ve had of a wall with re-arrangeable panels, to be used for embodied portraiture. I’ve gotten really into the power of physically, intuitively re-arranging things, and often lead my 1:1 clients in the practice. JPOS felt like the perfect time to bring this wall into being - this time with quilted naturally dyed and cyanotype wall panels that Maggie and I collaborated on!

It ended up making the most sense to let the portraits in front of the interactive quilt wall be a self-guided prompt for JPOS, though I’m looking forward to offering facilitated mini embodied portraiture sessions using the quilt wall this weekend.

When I was preparing for JPOS, my wonderful business coach Dana invited me to make sure I spent some time making my own self-portraits in front of the interactive quilt wall. Self-portraits are one of my favorite ways to connect with and express myself, and I really appreciated the reminder - it’s so easy to forget in the busy-ness of prepping for an event!

So, the day after JPOS, I did take some time to re-arrange the wall and make some of my own playful, intuitive, embodied self-portraits. I wanted to share them with you here! Scroll through below. You can check out my embodied portraiture offerings here.