🎨 Welcome
How do we continue our creative projects through the process of being dismantled? It happens in life. We are broken - in our creativity or in our relationships or with our health. Whatever (or whoever) broke us lingers in our hearts and minds - preventing us from continuing with our creative projects. Wow, do I understand this. I’ve had a tough time recovering from this process of being broken down to my essential elements...each time it’s happened in my life I go into a sort of hibernation, it seems. This quote from Rich Roll has helped.
“You’re being dismantled? Congratulations!”
The idea is to celebrate the opportunity of starting from a clean slate. This is almost the opposite of last week’s quote about starting from experience, but somehow it also rings true for me. What a celebration! The rare opportunity to begin again without attachment to the old ways of thinking that broke you. Not everyone gets such a chance.
However your creative strength stands now - strong & tall or totally dismantled - or somewhere in between - I’m sending love to you. Keep going. 🌿
Good journey,
🌈 Lupita Is Dismantled - Art Video
There’s something universally lovely about the way cherry blossoms fall from trees. I remember being at a sakura park in Japan in my early twenties during Spring, dancing under the falling blossoms of hundreds of trees. In my exploration of the new Lupita Portrait videos, I was able to combine the falling of cherry blossoms with Lupita being dismantled - her physical body or her spirit or her creative soul - flying away in the wind. A healing project for this painter with the most sensitive of hearts.
🦋 Custom Portraits
I completed another custom portrait. (Read about them here.) I’m excited about these portraits! This one below is of my Mexico mentor, Dr. George Ann Huck. She was the Director of the Central College Semester in the Yucatán during my two semesters studying in Merida. She’s also (among many other things) the founder of the Association of Academic Programs in Latin America & the Caribbean (AAPLAC), where I served as VP and President, in what seems like another lifetime. GAH remains one of the most influential teachers of my life and a chosen family member always. I posted a close-up of me painting this portrait as well on my Instagram.
The story behind this quote from Dr. Huck is that her husband, the Mexican painter Gabriel Ramírez, used to call me la que llora…(the one who cries) because he’d often find me at his kitchen table weeping during those tumultuous months of my first stay in Mexico…my first time being totally dismantled. For their love and care, for their guidance and patience, I am forever grateful. I’m up and moving, dear George Ann. I’m still moving forward all these years later.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
🌸 Cappadocia Book - Final Stretch!
Oh, this new Cappadocia book has been such a blessing for me. I look forward to my time with the pages every evening. I’ve poured myself into these paintings. It feels good to be in the final stretch of putting the book together.
I showed some of the pages to my son, Archie Zafer. He recognized himself and his brother. What a joy for me to see that bright flash of joy take over his face. 💙
👩🏻💻 Instagram / Social Media Break
I’m back on Instagram with a new name @EmilyLupitaExplores after taking an intentional break from all social media. Please help me continue to reach out by sharing this newsletter with someone you think may be interested.
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As always, I enjoy your posts and quotes. The videos are my 30 seconds of zen listening to the windchimes and the movement of colors.
I just posted to my Pinterest account. Will post to others. Do you have a link where people could go to if they are interested in purchasing something?