2022 Calendar FERTILE FUTURES- Postponed to 2023
This was a heavy realization for me to come to both creatively and professionally (& financially honestly) considering this project has become the backbone of my business over recent years. Getting to share my work w/ you all in this format has been a personal life highlight and I am so grateful for the enthusiasm and support you all have gifted me! Truly truly.
A major theme rising up in me for this FERTILE FUTURES body of work is around moving out of scarcity mentalities & capitalism's firm grip on our understandings of time, labor, survivability, success, personal worth... So in some ways it feels appropriate for me to take a step back, breathe, rest, and dream-in from a place of (hopefully more) abundance. This theme, these lessons all need more time to root in me.
Reposting this from my Instagram incase folks missed this announcement! ✨
It is this time of year when I am usually joyfully releasing my annual calendar to you all for pre-order and so it is with a bit of a heavy heart that I share that I will sadly not be releasing my 2022 Calendar FERTILE FUTURES for this upcoming year as I had intended.
Amid pandemic lows I have also been doing a lot of back end business work this year along with several big commissioned pieces and as I arrived at August when I am usually crushing away at this body of work, I found myself with very little physical and creative energy.
I had to ask myself if I could authentically create art images exploring themes around 'creating healthy foundations for abundance in our future' from a place of personal depletion. Although I resisted hearing it, I felt a deep "No" in my chest.
I hope I'm not disappointing any of you too deeply! I do have some new goodies I am hoping to release this holiday season. I am however also putting just one slow step in front of the others with these projects as well, so trying not to make promises w/ myself and with you.
I'm thinking about how challenging these past few years have been for so many and how pervasive the messages have been regarding how little value our lives have in this capitalist shit system. I hope we are each able to carve out more space to rest, to move at a pace that feels aligned w/ our energy, to cultivate more pleasure in our daily rituals and to delight in our inherent worth of being an earthly being.
Lots of Love to you all,
molly