About two years ago, I started making art. First it was watercolor painting. Now it’s digital collage. And in the future it will probably be something else I can’t imagine right now.

I enjoyed art as a child + took a few art classes in high school, but I hadn’t done much art since.

Until two summers ago, when the impulse to create hit me out of nowhere.

But it didn’t come entirely out of nowhere. Looking back, art emerged in my life around the same time magic did, and the pull to create coincided with some significant shifts in my spirituality.

Art started happening for me around the same time I began seeing the world through a more animist lens, when I started playing with tarot, when I started working with my ancestors (+ exploring the spiritual dimensions of that lineage).

For me, art is a spiritual thing.

So now, when I feel stuck or stagnant in my art, I ask myself: Where do I need to amp spiritual connection? How’s my relationship with magic? How plugged in am I to the aliveness in the world around me?

(Or, conversely, if I feel spiritually stagnant, I ask myself: Am I allowing time + space for art? Am I giving my creativity enough room?)

To my fellow artists + creatives: Is the same true for you?

Are there facets of your own spiritual practice that support your art + vice versa?