Stepping Deeper: A New Chapter in My Artist Journey

For most of my life, I’ve created without question.
I’ve followed the brush, the pen, the instinct — letting color and form lead the way. It’s always been like that for me. Creating felt as natural as breathing. I didn’t need to ask why I did it. I just knew I had to.

But recently, something inside me has started to shift.
It’s subtle, but unmistakable — a quiet tug at my heart, asking me to slow down and look inward. Not just at the work I’ve made, but at the self behind the work.

Why do I create?
What is my art trying to tell me about my own life?
What do my lines, colors, and characters carry that I’ve left unspoken in words?

These are the kinds of questions rising in me now. Not from a place of doubt — but from a place of desire. A desire to understand myself more deeply through the act of making.

Because I’m starting to see that my art has always been more than a practice.
It’s a mirror. A portal. A prayer.

It’s how I’ve loved people I couldn’t hold anymore.
How I’ve processed grief I didn’t have words for.
How I’ve reconnected to joy, to softness, to spirit — especially in moments when the world felt too hard or too loud.

And so, this month, I’m choosing to follow this deeper calling.
Not to prove anything or perform for the outside world. But to return to the heart of why I create at all.

I’ll be writing daily blog posts — short reflections, questions, memories, and meditations — as a way to document this inward journey. I’ll be sharing honestly and gently, not because I have all the answers, but because I believe the act of asking matters.

Here are just a few of the questions I’m sitting with:

• What moves me to create — truly?

• How do love, longing, and loneliness shape my work?

• What stories am I telling without realizing it?

• Can my creative practice become a space of healing, of devotion, of spiritual connection?

This isn’t about productivity.
This is about presence.

It’s about becoming more fully myself, through the act of slowing down, reflecting, and allowing my art to speak to me — not just for me.

If you’ve ever made something and felt your own soul reflected back at you...
If you’ve ever used art as a way to touch the parts of you that are tender, messy, or sacred...
If you’ve ever longed for a deeper connection between your creativity and your inner life...

Then I invite you to walk alongside me.

Let’s explore what it means to be artists who are also deeply feeling humans — spiritual, sensitive, complex, and alive.

Thank you for being here. I can’t wait to see what we discover.

With tenderness,
Bunny Lee. 🐸