The Canvas as a Mirror

Your point of pain and your search for answers makes a powerful canvas for your next creation. The most compelling journey anyone’s art can invite us into is the costly one the artist must walk first. 

In other words, the best art begins as a personal expression.  

It is shaped by questions that keeps you up at night and sets you on a unique quest involving faith, restoration, healing, and home. There is immense power when we create from that space. The best we can do as creatives is to invite others into the ideas we can't quit thinking about. To honestly and awkwardly share both the awe and the unknown of the journey we are currently on. The temptation is to wait until we feel we have all the answers. But you don't need to be the expert on a topic. Be you. Be real. Be original. And take the first step.

Once you do, others with similar longings will begin to follow.

And that’s where the personal side of creating shifts to the sacrificial. 

For your art to be more than a vanity project, it must also address a felt need or point of pain of the end user—not simply point back to you.  

Your art started as your journey into your questions. Yet it can’t remain mostly for or about you. Not if you want it to be relevant to others. It must help answer their questions and address their longings for God, for home, for hope. 

In that sense, your canvas acts as a mirror for others. It doesn’t reflect you but offers a glimpse of God. Others see both God and themselves through your journey and know they aren’t alone.  

When the personal and sacrificial come together, the art becomes a beautiful offering.  

First to God as you create it. Then to others as you release it.

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