By enacting creative gestures through dialogue, I have given myself permission to open breaches between opposing spaces. Between the private and public realms, between the family and social spaces, between cultural and utilitarian spaces, between leisure and workspaces (Foucault, 2004), I have woven a thread that traverses them all. I work so that each of these spaces is now crossed by the transformative power of art. This grand crossing is conducted on multiple fronts. Every day, I witness a transformation in my relationship with power, the body, community, the past, present, and future. Art in life helps me live more fully and resist a little more of what prevents us from living fully.
Engaging in creative actions at any moment allows me to infuse hope into certain spaces imposed on me by necessity, such as the workspace, domestic space, or medical space.
Embracing multiplicity and accepting art’s presence in one’s life transforms and revalues the constraints of daily life (caring for children, the elderly, or vulnerable individuals, performing domestic tasks, etc.), while creating a form of harmonization between the different spheres of this daily existence.