Cultivating Liberation Art Space has been a journey – challenging, rewarding, revelatory, and full of fun surprises of fulfillment. As has my journey towards becoming, and more importantly, recognizing and accepting myself as an artist.

When I first began making music, admittedly, I found myself creating for approval, often with an eye towards what other people would like and well receive. These days, I create with a firmer commitment to authenticity and healing – which often means bringing the unspoken to full voice and speaking uncomfortable truths. I’ve found a certain freedom in expressing what needs to be said, rather than what is convenient or pleasing to say.

All the while, I still find nuggets of truth, a certain essence and consistent perspective that was still present even in those early days. Even looking back at high school and earlier, there are some through lines that carry me through my musings to this day.

I start with that essence of me, that which I seek to savor and desire to exude, which for me is unreserved love, playfulness, kindness, which in turn expands into creativity, a wondrous imagination and reconfiguring of possibilities…

From there, I create alternative, demos, prototypes, examples and analogies of what I seek to manifest. As time goes on, my perspectives develop further, I see angles and contours of experience that are revealed only through the layering and interaction. Which is why collaboration has become so thrilling and welcome.

My music coach recently shared that even above my creative and artistic abilities, my capacity to collaborate and make connections really is a fundamental asset to my style. I did not realize this, and the observation has been swirling around in my mind ever since. Collaboration (collabs) come naturally to me. There’s much fun and possibility in merging with another artist, and seeing how a project develops under the co-shaping and mutually navigated decisions.

This leads to healing connection – when artists can be seen, understood, and have space to connect and share in a way that’s full of ease and fulfillment.

All this brings us back to further refining and gathering the seeds of essence that keep the cycle of growth moving.

This is how Liberation Art Space and Ozulé Studios are proliferating. A simple magic, indeed.