The Art that Started it All

"Ewww," "Gross!" "Ugh, yuck, I can feel it on my face"or worse still, "Is that a hair in my food?!"

Hair is a beautiful, often times spiritual, thing that we have deep ties and roots to. The age old stories we tell about hair being something of strength and power, or a spiritual antenna, allowing us to pick up on things that could be dangerous or scary- "the hair stood up on the back of my neck when my dad told me ghost stories by the fire as a kid."

We are obsessed as a culture with hair. Whether, it's about having it, styling it, shaving it, cutting it, growing it, removing it, or changing its color. The list is long. And so too the hair (couldn't resist the pun) But, hair being in a place it's not supposed to be... now that's a no, no. We do not want hair in our pools, in our food, and worst of all in our showers, waiting to fall on us from the wall, or evening just seeing it clumped up in the corner;(I'm grossing myself out just thinking about it.)

If you are someone with long hair, as I was at the time and currently am again, then you know the struggle. You wash your hair, natural shedding occurs, so instead of letting it go down the drain (insert image of drain snaking here...) Then what are you to do? Here's what you most likely do, you slap the loose strands on your shower tiles, promising to yourself that you will take the wet wad out as you leave. Sound familiar? Well that's what I used to do, especially when I was loosing hair after my first son was born. Except for one caveat. Often due to mom brain, and lets face it exhaustion, laziness whatever, it maybe- the hair would just hang out there. So I thought to myself well, if it's gonna be up here then I might as well have some fun with it.

That's how the h.Art Project, as I dubbed it, got started. I started creating images, art work, with the most humble part of me. The part of me that I was loosing all while simultaneously loosing so many other parts of my identity. But the amazing thing is how this brought me back to myself. Brought be back to my center, my creativity, all while awakening something in me which I always knew was there but was reluctant to admit. I am a creator, an artist, a healer. In the length of one shower I was able to start a journey and a conversation one which I am stil expanding on today. The art work was documented captured, posted, and shared, but now it feels like it's coming to life in a whole new way. A way that can help others, to connect in our humanness, our oneness and our creativity. This Project, eventually inspired my writing, my book and my podcast. And now I get to bring these things to you.

~Natasha