How do we define creative practice?
Is it everything? Is it nothing? What if we allow ourselves to not know?
The spider’s web is web of protection around art-making, around play, and around intentional community. It is an offering for spaciousness from social media. This work allows me to take time with my daily practice, with myself, and with my communities that feels easeful in my body. I hope that these offerings will bring you more ease and consideration in your own body. You can find me here, on my IG @meredithannewhite, online booking, and my website. Thank you so much 🤎
My creative practice has been tethered to digital containers for a very long time. I sought out identity in spaces that were created with bios and highlights and legible identifiers. It allowed me to find queerness and pansexuality and non-monogamy. I found community in ways that I didn’t have access to at the time. I was able to connect with artists outside of Atlanta. I found queer-led workshops and digital offerings during the pandemic when I was isolated. These digital worlds are vast and beautiful and weavers of webs. It brought me and continues to bring me into portals of expansion that I am forever grateful for.
However, my intention around them has shifted as of late. I found myself unable to untether myself from them. I sought them out to tell me how to feel, think, and act. I wanted explanations for things that most likely have very few answers if at all. It allowed me the opportunity to orient myself back to myself. I began to dismantle the very containers that gave me autonomy in my practice at one time.
My creative practice with my bees after I painted their home and gave them a 2nd story home renovation 🥰
These containers often pin us against one another. There is less opportunity for us to exist within the in-between very often or even at all. If someone fumbles over their words while exploring big topics, we tell them that they are stupid for not knowing. I’ve belittled those for not knowing. I’ve felt belittled for not knowing.
My fumbled footing felt like missteps a lot of the time. I’ve found that people want to know “what I do” and “who I date” and “what’s next.” My words often fail me because I don’t often have them until I’ve wiggled my way into an experience and touched it and kissed it and laid with it in the grass with a quilt and a bowl of fruit.
My creative practice that became this basket of goodies for Eve’s birthday with my quilt, yummy foods, poppies, a print, and sugar snap peas from the garden 🌱
I like to pick up a rock, turn it over, set it down, let it rest in the sun, and maybe skip it across the lake and find a new one to hold altogether at another point in time. Maybe it means I identify as one thing and then I change my mind. It’s something about myself that I used to feel deep shame around. Now I see it as coming from a place of child-like curiosity.
We live in a world that wants explanations for most everything. We are given the opportunity to share intimate bits of ourselves outwardly if we so choose. We also don’t have to define our practice within the bounds of a platform that benefits off of us as a product to be packaged and shared amongst the masses with a shiny, red bow.
So maybe I’m advocating that we protect the child-like curiosity in ourselves as a tool for the world-building alternatives that we need as a deep commitment to change. In order for problem-solving to continue, we must allow ourselves the grace to question and create space for discourse and fuck up.
My creative practice of tarot/oracle cards in the cemetery under this amazing willow tree that helps me ground in the morning before my sessions with y’all 🦋
I leave y’all with these questions as I dig into them for myself 🤎
What is my creative practice?
Is my creative practice defined by the projects I land?
Is my creative practice dependent on the money I’m making in tandem with them?
Am I less creative if I’m not sharing all facets of them outwardly?
What if my creative practice is my own?
What if some days feel like they call for absolutely stillness and spaciousness?
Is that creative practice to?
🌞 I am called to be in community! 🌞
🤎 I will be with my sweet friend Rush on May 14th from 12-5pm with lots of vintage, prints, and tarot offerings that you may sign up for here. My friends Carly and Kelly will be there will sweet offerings as well (ceramics and robes)!
🤎 I am offering an evening meditation as soft resistance in the forest on Sunday May 15th for the week of action in defense of the Weelaunee forest/Intrenchment Creek Park. This meditation will offer safe space to lay amongst the trees and send love to one another and the forest itself as an act of protest and protection. Please bring a blanket, your platonic love, your lover(s), yourself, your sacred objects, some water, and anything else you’d like for comfort. I will lead us in a brief meditation and offer a collective energetic clearing to deepen our practice.
This offering is donation-based with proceeds going back to QTBIPOC travel funds or the Forest Defense Fund. This offering is accessible for anyone with a 5-7 minute walk from parking. My friend Alice will help lead those of you who have not been into the forest to the spot that is chosen for the meditation. If you have any questions on accessibility and location, please reach out. I will post this on my social so stay tuned for that. *I did not make this sign :)
🤎 I will be with my amazing friends at Tic-Tac on May 21st from 9-2pm with vintage, prints, and tarot offerings that you may sign up for here. There will be art, ceramics, intuitive offerings, pastries, coffee, and Moroccan food!! So many yummy things come see us and lay on quilts with me.
🤎 A community ask from y’all! Help me share the message that I am looking to sublet my home in Atlanta for the months of July and August! If you are looking for a sweet and cozy place to stay with a studio please reach out. Would love to have you here, as it would offer me spaciousness to travel with my partner.
I love you!
This work allows me to take time with my daily practice, with myself, and with my communities that feels easeful in my body. I hope that these offerings will bring you more ease and consideration in your own body. You can find me here, on my IG @meredithannewhite, online booking, and my website. Thank you so much 🤎