Just to get this going for now…..
I am an activist artist and I have been writing things down that I think about for a long time. I think about a lot of different sorts of things from food to politics (they actually are pretty closely related these days), and art and peace, hunger, nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, to what it means to be a conscious person in 2017.
I have done a lot of things in this life….I started off in Los Angeles (and am enjoying it again after a long absence) and studied political science at UCLA. Somehow I wound up in the garment industry (it all makes sense now) and about seven years later I moved to Sedona, AZ and opened an organic cafe. Early in the 21st century I imported handbags from Italy. How can anyone not want to be in Italia? And, I had a holistic health center in Germany where I taught yoga, meditation, mindful fitness training and was a life coach.
When I returned to the states I started a blog on sustainable living called SmartLifeways that has been neglected the last few years since I started making art (a lifelong desire). You can see my earliest work at Notice The Divine, which is a line of greeting cards and prints of my art. Soon, my more recent paintings and mixed media work will be at MichelleVictoria.com.
It’s been a busy life. Lately I feel that there is so much to wonder about and to question, and I feel an urgency to speak the truth of what I see. For humanity to move forward it seems we must look truth straight in the eye and be ready for what it reveals, about the world around us and the world within each of us.
Let’s bear witness together of it all. All of the beauty and all of the suffering.
Thanks for joining me on this journey
Michelle Victoria