Website Update

I am so excited to announce the official release of my refreshed website. I initially wanted this update to take place in the first few weeks of 2022, but as things always are with art, it takes its own time. Although 2022 felt like my least creative year, in reality it expressed itself in a unfamiliar way. 2022 was a year about deep structural changes; re-programming old thinking, practicing discipline, dispelling of physical and emotional baggage, and moving with more consciousness and intention. It wasn’t all the glitz and glam as former years with overflowing days filled with creation and the high of starting an art business as a newcomer, but because of 2022 I’ve never felt my feet more solidly on the ground. I knew that I needed grounding, I needed structure and I needed to organize myself in order to call in bigger work, bigger commissions and bigger clients.

I worked many markets with my most successful being that of the Sunshine People Market in November. I was able to add Art and Mori to my wholesale clients and have an artist feature in the same shop. I was invited to be a part of the Punahou Carnival Art Gallery with four of my selected work on display. I also sold and shipped one of my largest works to Atlanta to find it’s new home. I explored a new medium through collage and was able to sell many of my new collage works at the Black Bazaar event this past June.

Something else that I experimented with was facilitating collage workshops for children, adults, and for a company retreat party. Teaching is new and vulnerable for me, but I enjoy that it helps me to more deeply examine what drives my creation and intention. So many big firsts in 2022 on top of learning how to structure my business more efficiently. My soul was calling out for it after years of blind exploration and mild chaos. Little did I know was that I was preparing for deep change which did not make itself known until 15 months after I closed my web page for refurbishing.

Since I put my page under construction in January 2021, my little family and I relocated to my hometown of Avon, Connecticut. Never in my young adult life would I have imagined moving back home after finding such a sense of belonging in Honolulu, but life has its way with you and makes clear pathways of general meanderings. Now I find myself back in the suburbs of my origin to be closer to family while tackling what my next artistic steps may be. The beautiful thing about living in a place with more than two seasons is that urgency of time passing returns to the nervous system. When you witness the passage of time so physically in the environment it’s hard not to be aware that the tick tock of time moves in steady current down stream.

Photo by Kenna Reed for Paiko, 2019

As I sit on my deck typing this taking in the sounds of a gaggle of geese preparing for their journey North to Canada, I ask myself where am I headed? What is my purpose? I have always taken pathways along the whims of curiosity and have been called to move and change my environment completely in service to whatever I am to learn next. Oahu was my body university; I learned to trust it, to listen to it, to nurture it, express it and love it for the first time as a conscious adult. Oahu was where I excavated a deep sense of belonging to the earth where I struggled for years to feel such. I needed to strengthen the relationship between my body, my mind, and realize the fabric of interconnectivity to carry me through the challenges I have yet to face.

It’s impossible to summarize a a chapter you have yet to write, but I suspect this next leg of life’s lessons will be about the preservation of memory. What are the stories we tell ourselves across generations? What roles have we played in limbs of our families and how do we honor that memory and its lessons to pass along to future generations?

Thank you to you all who have been following my journey these past few years, your continued support an belief have fueled me in darker nights an inspired me at times of dawn.

Aloha,

Brennan