Home prints / photo by Rose Deniz
Sezin described us as ‘intimate strangers,’ Anastasia a ‘carillon,’ each person’s comments creating a verbal percussion. The nine women who gathered on Sunday to participate in Dialogue2010 astounded me with their clarity of vision, their engagement with creativity, their willingness to bend and flex through identity and language challenges, and their alignment with their core. A year or two ago, I created my vision statement, or what Gwen Bell would describe as a ‘personal manifesto,’ and these three words have shaped the work I’ve done since: manifest creative potential. In starting Art is Dialogue and moderating this discussion, I felt that come to life. I felt synchronicty with people I’ve yet to meet in real life, bonded through a willingness to live a meaningful life at the crossroads.
How do you manifest your creative potential?
The blog responses to the dialogue have left me speechless. I invite you to dip into the syncopated words of the women who made it happen. As more posts and feedback become available, I’ll post updates.
Mapping my hybrid life on a personal, passion level involves drawings, notations, and novel writing.
Turquoise Poppy is about allowing your circumstances to guide your path while staying true to your inner compass.
Fear of Flying — Sezin.org
Path finder — Love, Rose
What language do you use to describe your trajectory?
Ring my bell — Furthering the Worldwide Cultural Conversation
What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born?
Talking Point — Skaian Gates
I found myself asking through the day were we sharing our hybrid lives because of our creativity or because of our experience of being expats.
A Thousand Ways — Tales from Turkey
I’ve connected with 9 women with crazy, joyful, challenging hybrid lives so like my own. Lives that seem to hinge on one particular characteristic we all share – creativity.
Intimate Strangers — Sezin.org
Dialogue 2010 was a meeting of kindreds, as women, as hybrids, as artists, as dreamers, believers.
Mapping My Worldview — Skaian Gates
Two snapshots placed side-by-side to show how my worldview has changed.
What an Expat Leaves Behind – Judith van Praag
The expat hybrid lifestyle forms an audible cloud
