The Art of Becoming Who We Are: Multiplicity, Neurocomplexity, and the Joy of Being Late to Bloom

I was very honored to be asked to give this talk for the Los Angeles County Psychological Association’s Mirror of the Mind Artist Spotlight series: The Art of Becoming Who We Are: Multiplicty, Neurocomplexity, and the Joy of Being Late to Bloom.

A meditation on art as a practice of being and becoming who we are, and undressing from all we are not, through the lens of my circuitous creative journey as a multi-passionate, irremediably sensitive, neurodivergent being. A Brownian motion stroll through the landscape of my art and a variety of interwoven themes: art with a lower case “a,” the art of the everyday; art as observation; art as breath; the natural multiplicity of the psyche; desire as the motor of life; epigenetic echoes in the process of becoming; neurodivergence as a superpower; the advantages and pitfalls of diagnosis; fragmentation and regeneration as creative adaptations; artists as the metabolizers of societal detritus; the dangers of being sane; the importance of integrating play in adulthood; and the pleasures and advantages of being a late bloomer.