Are You a Botticelli, Warhol, or Undiscovered Artist?

by Kayce Stevens Hughlett

PonderersBeing alive is an art form and each day we get to work with the materials that we are given. Some days we choose our own graceful palette and other times the choice seems to be thrown at us like paint run amok. Today has been one of those days where I feel like I’ve been given a couple of pounds of messy clay, gray paint, a few fresh flowers, and some uncut gemstones. Creating feels neither smooth nor easy. Nonetheless, this post beckons to be formed and so it shall… lumps and all. Any hesitation is with my own creative process and not the materials I’ve been given.

In my last post I shared this statement and question:

Being alive and doing business are art forms… Each uniquely beautiful. What creation or masterpiece would you select to represent your business and why?

I’m delighted to share the responses I received from three inimitably wonderful entrepreneur friends of mine who each brings her own delightful form of creativity to the topic. They offer wonderful examples of what I hope to express with these posts on living and business as art forms.

Lisa D’Alessio is a Transformative Intuitive Master Healer who chose Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as her perfect masterpiece.

“This represents my work in so many ways. It is an appreciation for the human body as a true place of beauty. Venus is a goddess born into a human body. She is comfortable in her beauty, and her face holds peace and true love for herself. 

Venus wears a human body, and yet knows that her body is a place where the divine resides. Her body is a temple. It is not a thing to be given away or to be changed to please another. She is totally good with being who she is, loving her body as her home, and remembering that her TRUE home is in Source. She walks with the winds and the water, and violets, the symbol of love, fall at her feet.

This exactly represents my true work: welcoming women home to their bodies, helping them connect to that peace and joy of remembering, embracing and loving the woman they were born to be.” 

Denise Roseland  of ChangeMaker Consulting brings her own version of creative soup to the question.

“This weekend, my art was making a glorious pot of soup.  Cooking is my greatest muse.  Anytime I am stuck, stalling, unfocused, I know I can go to the kitchen, make something simple or elegant and be ready to focus and get back to work when I am done. This weekend, it was a pot of Spanish Country Soup.  I don’t even have any photos of the soup we gobbled it up so fast. {Pardon me, Denise, but I couldn’t resist selecting this photo for you.}

And about what it represents about my biz…

Soup is a perfect metaphor.  A melange of flavors and techniques that create a delicious, soul-satisfying meal.  Much like my strategic services for women entrepreneurs can show them how to create alignment between their dreams for a better world and for doing business better by working on self-care, strategy, systems, and growing a tribe.”

Last, but never least, is one of my SoulStrolling pals, Sunshine Sue who motivates peeps with her brilliant disposition and creative health business, Fitspiration.

artist/photographer unknown“When I came up with my company name FITspiration, long before I even had a clear conscious image of what I wanted to become, I knew that I wanted to help others find themselves buried deep within their shells.  Eight years later I found this, on Google images, and knew she was ME!  This represents my passion, my love and my desire.”   

I don’t know about you, but I’m so inspired to read and see how these creative women are creating their own masterpieces! Thanks so much to Lisa D, Denise R, and Sunshine Sue for helping me further explore art as business form.

So tell me, my friend: What creation or masterpiece would you select to represent your life and/or business? Have fun! The perfect answer is the one you select!!

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