THE ARTIST COLLAGE : VANIA HARDY

At 8 years old, she lay on the kitchen floor of her family’s small apartment in Hawaii, surrounded by crayons, colored pencils and little watercolor paints. She had lined her materials neatly around her. Perhaps if she kept everything orderly as she worked, her mother would not mind the mess. A blank sheet of paper sat ready in front of her.

Staring at it, she remembered yesterday’s hula lesson, dancing to the story of the sea turtle’s return back to the shore - back to the place from where it came after 30 years of swimming through the oceans of its young life. She knew what she would draw. The Navigator.

Using the pencils and crayons, she traced the outline of a turtle, exploring with hues of blended watercolors to fill in its colorful shell. Ripping out pieces from magazines and craft books, she glued together the turtle’s landscape - the island, the shore, the sea. 

“Tousled out of her creative concentration, Vania felt discouraged. She wanted to make a mess, to make things. In times like this she could not quite understand where she came from. But every good story needs tension, conflict.”

The small yellow flowers nestled in the kitchen’s windowsill caught her attention and she hurried over excitedly to look at them. She had planted them from seeds, watering and watching them grow and bloom each day. Bubbling with pride at the reward of her care, she plucked a few, went back to her work, and glued the yellow blossoms to her landscape. The turtle needed something bright to come home to.  

As she created, she felt something deep within her tell her she was at home in this creative space. Perhaps it was here where she was truly born. “Mom! I want to be an artist!” she suddenly exclaimed, accidently spilling her dirty paint water in excitement.

“Vania! Please clean up this mess now,” her mother said as she stepped around her daughter’s makeshift studio. 

Tousled out of her creative concentration, Vania felt discouraged. While her mother was supportive, she often felt lost in the constraints of small quarters and a culture that valued tidiness and downplayed the arts. She wanted to make a mess, to make things. In times like this she could not quite understand where she came from. But every good story needs tension, conflict.

She didn’t know it then, but It wouldn’t be long before her family would leave Hawaii. She would soon have her own ocean to navigates, her own chance to endure, stories to learn, and stories to share.

Today, Vania is an artist and illustrator who enjoys her own space in an “art studio apartment” above a quaint coffee shop in Elizabethtown, Pa. She is free to be as messy as she chooses. She invited us into her space, where she shared with us about her childhood, her faith, and her current exploration into family’s history that has inspired her most recent paintings.

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Who or what inspires you now?

“I actually go back to Story when it comes to inspiration. For all of my shows I think of a theme to work around, and it’s usually tied to a personal story. Right now, my own family history is really inspiring me. I don’t know what thought or event prompted it, but I started to become interested in my maternal grandmother.”

“I do have my artists whose styles I really admire, but I actually go back to Story when it comes to inspiration. Right now I'm creating a lot of work for a show coming up in August called “Worth More.” For all of my shows I think of a theme to work around, and it’s usually tied to a personal story. Right now, my own family history is really inspiring me. I don't know what thought or event prompted it, but I started to become interested in my maternal grandmother, because there are a lot of people in my family who don't talk about her. The part of me that loves stories and mysteries was like, “Okay, no one's talking about this. I want to poke the bear and see what happens.” I've been piecing together more of her life and who she was.  I didn't know this before, but she came from a more prominent family. They had a lot of properties and one of them was a mango farm. The picture that seems to be coming together is one of a woman who, from what a lot of people say about her, was just really nice and didn’t complain. Which is a weird thing to say about someone. It makes me think she probably had a lot to complain about, and she did - my grandpa. A lot of people talked about how charismatic and friendly he was, such a strong personality, yet I thought it was weird that as a side note people would say, “Oh, but he also had a lot of affairs." He was in the US army, because the Philippines was U.S. territory at that point.  I learned that it was really common for those men to have affairs. So my grandmother was all caught up in that. He actually left the family for five years because of an affair. 

My grandma wasn't educated, so she worked on her parent's properties to make money, and she also rallied her kids to get jobs and band together and make it work. Then my grandpa just comes back five years later and expects to be dad again. My grandma couldn't say anything, so she let him. She was known as being very docile. 

My grandfather was a person. Now, I'm working through forgiveness for this person I've never known before. I learned he was actually a guy who loved being hospitable. The house my mom grew up in was the place the whole community went to for parties on weekends. I realized that's where I must get my love for hospitality and having people over. I'm learning more about myself.”

How does your faith prompt you to create?

“I came to know Jesus at four years old, but of course I grew into my faith. My faith is a core part of me, and as an artist I just express who I am, so my faith comes out naturally.  As I've seen art become a platform for hospitality and deeper conversation, I see the benefit in creatively expressing my faith. It becomes a bridge to connecting with other people, even if they don't share the same faith.”

How do you express your faith in your art?

“As I've been growing as an artist, there were people in my life who saw the potential in me expressing faith ideas. Yet within that are certain people not really knowing how to relate to things like abstract art. They put art in a box, as if the only acceptable art in the Christian faith is crosses and sunrises. So, some of them are coming at it from that angle. However. they did prompt me to start thinking, “Oh, this could really illustrate a deeper idea.” 

I had one experience where my church wanted me to paint something for our women's retreat, and the theme of it was “being clay in the potter's hands”. Everything in me was saying, “I don't want to paint Christian paintings!” Also, hands are also really hard to draw! I decided to try it, and it actually turned out really cool. The process taught me some things, because one of the hands came out looking kind of like it had certain deformities. I wanted to fix it. But then something in me was like, “You know, what if that's just the person's hand?” It taught me to appreciate uniqueness and beauty. There was something in the process that taught me something. And so, it's almost like art-making is one of the many ways I work out my own faith. 

I spent a year having a space at The Well, a worship night that happens at Folklore. What I ended up doing for that was going in not knowing what I'm going to paint, necessarily. I would feel out the atmosphere and what was coming through in the songs and the prayers, and just seeing where the painting would go. I had some really neat moments of stepping back and realizing, “Oh! this is what's happening around me. This is what I got out of worship.” It challenged me as well, because I'm a planner, and that kind of practice was spontaneous. The idea of painting as worship might be a little out there for some people, but I am really glad for the challenge it gave me - to see differently and try new things.

I had the space open for other people to join in as well. One neat thing I saw in that was people would paint pictures and give it to other people as they felt prompted. They were like, “I think this picture would encourage you. This picture is a metaphor for what God might be doing in your life, or who you are as a person, or how God sees you.” I loved when I saw people doing that, just giving other people paintings.”

In what ways do you feel creating and our humanity go together?

“Creating is such a natural way that we express who God is. The first few words in Genesis were “In the beginning, God created…” And so us creating is just emulating more of God's nature and character. We can’t actually create something from nothing, but in our own way we're reflecting what God did with the world. We’re being our Dad's kids when we create. 

As I was working on this recent show, it’s been reminding me of how stories were passed on through generations, like in indigenous cultures. They didn't have a written language, so they passed on stories. Even the hieroglyphics we have through the Egyptians, we know about them because of what they wrote down or what they depicted. 

So “Worth More” is kind of my way of playing into that. It’s a visual story that tells about a woman who I feel is a buried treasure in history. She did so much and she was so important to who I am now, even though I didn't know her. I want her story to be seen, and her importance to be seen. If she were alive today, it’s saying the things that I would tell her: “You are worth more than what you got. No one would have blamed you if you yelled at Grandpa or didn't take him back. You’re worth so much more. We did you a disservice in downplaying how important you are.” It’s my way of saying how important she is.”

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“ Art and creativity were suppressed in my upbringing, but in having my own space, I came back to who I am. I like to tell people the themes that come through in my art, without even really trying, are community, legacy and identity. That just seems to be what I’m about.”

As an adult, Vania still resonates with the story of the sea turtle. The journey of the great sea navigator is also her journey as an artist. “Art and creativity were suppressed in my upbringing, but in having my own space, I came back to who I am. I like to tell people the themes that come through in my art, without even really trying, are community, legacy and identity. That just seems to be what I'm about. Someone once told me she noticed that Home is a theme for me. She said, ‘I think you were trying to find your way home’. And she’s right.”

Vania’s art show, “Worth More: Letters to My Grandmother” premiered August 2nd at Benjamin Roberts Office Interiors in Lancaster, Pa. You can find a selection of pieces from this show for sale on Vania’s website, along with other prints and originals. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

THE ARTIST COLLAGE : KAREN CHANDLER

She spent the afternoon lying in the grass, staring out at the Tennessee river, a thread of blue that nestled her family’s rural farm. From where she sat, the water - ephemeral and always on the move - appeared still and solid. It might trick you into thinking you could walk across to the other side, just like that. How did Jesus walk on water? She had a sudden urge to be out there, in the middle of the blue. A few large tree trunks bobbed up and down in a small alcove at the river’s edge, collected by the waves one by one. She watched them intently. An idea came.

A surge of energy bubbled up from somewhere deep within her and she leaped up to wrap her arms around her horse’s neck in excitement. “Sugar, I’m going to build a raft!” She fumbled in a delightful sprint toward her father’s tool shop.

She spent the next week in her father’s shop, sorting through scrap lumber, rummaging through the nails and screws. It was summer and there was no school. She enjoyed sifting her fingers through the pool of nails, the metal cool against her skin in the humid heat of the southern summer.

“Karen!” She could hear her mother call her for supper but she couldn’t be bothered. Inspiration quenched her appetite. Creativity was her food. “I’m building a raft!” she called back.

Her older brother chuckled from the kitchen table. Inside, her father exchanged a playful look with her mother, as if to say, “you did this.” Her mother had enrolled her in numerous private art and music lessons, further influencing her creative sprints.

Finally, the day came. The raft was finished. Today she would surmount the water. She grabbed the front of the raft and attempted to drag it toward the river, quickly discovering it wouldn’t budge. It was too heavy. She moved to the back of it and pushed. Nothing. She backed away and stared at it for several minutes, breathing heavily. Suddenly, she sprinted to the stables. “Sugar, I need your help,” she whispered in the horse’s ear, arms wrapped around her solid neck.

The horse helped her pull the raft to the river. When she approached the bank, her heart began to beat in anticipation. Adrenaline gave her the strength to push the raft so that it’s nose was floating on top of the water. With one last ounce of strength, she pushed it the rest of the way, and quickly jumped on top. It stayed there, afloat, perhaps for just a few seconds before she realized she was immersed in the water. She swam back to the shore and watched the waves, her raft now on the river’s floor.

Like the raft, her heart sank in disappointment. She thought about the huge fallen trees, effortlessly floating in the water, thought maybe they knew more about miracles than she ever would.

For Karen Chandler, creating has always been about wonder, adventure, and taking chances.

“My family always thought I was strange,” laugh’s Karen, “because I was an artsy type.”

Soft-spoken and unassuming, she talks with my friend Ally and I from her home studio, demonstrating the process of clay-printing in between our story-telling, laughter, and playing with her beloved dog Mylee. There is a subtle humor interlaced in everything she says.

From poured acrylics to stone carving, artist Karen Chandler has tried it all. But she has forged for herself a sweet spot in the unique medium of creating mono-prints using a clay bed.

What inspired you to begin clay-printing?

“Having explored many types of art with private classes, I found an artist who most inspired me with his non-traditional print-making using clay. I studied with Mitch Lyons of London, PA. A really outstanding individual. He’s a potter in Philadelphia. He had a Master’s in clay pottery and ceramics. You name it, he was good at it all. When I met him, he was doing a demonstration on clay-printing. He actually pioneered it himself. I was just fascinated with it. He said he was doing some workshops, so I signed up for one. I drove down both days and I came home excited. I just loved it, absolutely loved it. The basic idea with clay-printing is simply to be free and have fun. Mitch always told us it was like a kid playing, and it kind of is because you do a lot of stuff that’s just really fun. To hear him talk about how he was excited every day to work with clay in his studio made me want to do that too. I felt I had found my medium and thus, identify myself as a clay-printer. Although I still enjoy working in all types of medium, art-making, and teaching. If he left me with anything, I hope I became a little like him.”

Who or what inspires you now?

“I am happy to have the opportunity and purpose of teaching at the Friendship Heart Gallery, an extension of Friendship Community. Friendship Community is a faith-based organization providing home care and life enhancement for people with autism, physical and intellectual disabilities. The Friendship Heart Gallery is a part of that organization, which has provided a working studio and art outlet for these folks who are able to make art with the help of employed instructors, and market their work in the gallery.

I have learned so much about teaching and making art by working with these wonderful students. With the challenges that come with having a disability, how could you not be inspired by their efforts to paint? They make me a more creative teacher because of their disabilities. They look to you for guidance and are sensitive to making a mistake. I tell them every mistake is fixable with paint. Now that sounds a bit like our lives with God. We should look to Him for guidance and forgiveness to fix mistakes.”

How does your faith prompt you to create?

“I was a member of a wonderful artist outreach group that eventually dissolved after three years. I really, really liked that. It was a really nice program, and every year they had this awesome show at Easter. It was nice to work toward it. We had meetings and we kept a journal every day for plans for our work, long before we actually started doing our work. I was journaling most every day with prayer. It was a long process with months of developing. That journaling and devotion time was a process that gave me ideas of what to try and achieve. So I guess you could say there was divine guidance with the artwork. It was amazing that when you take that time to do that, your work is much more worthy.”

How do you express your faith in your art?

“I have worked on paintings, sculpture and stone carvings from Biblical scripture as a part of that art group. Each show was filled with Christian artists’ works and music and presented at Easter. The last show was held in Lancaster City at The Trust Performing Arts Center.

When I was journaling, the idea came to me to work at carving an alabaster stone. Some years before, I was fortunate to meet and study under Ramon Lago, master sculptor, who now lives in Miami, Florida. Even though years had gone by since I worked with Ramon, he totally inspired me to try something over the top for the Easter Show. I chose to work abstractly and was inspired by the stone of the tomb.

I worked on three separate stones entitled “The Tomb, The Light, and The Spirit”. They were exhibited in several churches after the initial show. It was the most challenging project I ever did. The stones were carved in the old style without many power tools so it took me months to complete.

My ultimate art experiences have come from working with God’s creative presence of the Holy Spirit. These three stones were the evolution of a project for the Lord. His direction and power was needed to accomplish the task, after much prayer. Working with stone is a slow and challenging task. I would never have attempted this without His purpose at hand. With God all things are possible when we go forward in Faith. “

For you, in what ways do creating and humanity go together?

The type of art I do is more of an experience. I like to experiment and do new things, try new stuff. I love going for a special discovery, a refreshing style, a certain pop of color. It’s about having an experience and enjoying it. At the end of my experience I always want that rewarding, pleasing result - a divine touch of serendipity. Sometimes, you kind of just get a surprise and that’s what it is. A lot of it is just not considered worthy to be kept.

I think experimental or non-traditional art is at greater risk for aesthetic critique because art principles have not established a recognizable sense of value or appreciation for their results or for just the creative experience. How could it, really? It sounds like I’m talking from the 60’s, which I can of course.

The thing is, when you get something and it starts to look cool, you know it may not come out that way.  If the art piece is not pleasing, I try to make it so, and if it gets worse, I know it is time to break. As I always tell my students when they get a little timid, go for it! You can always paint over it again. Taking my own advice, I have been painting over old artworks lately.

I’m one to keep a lot to myself, but life experiences, often messy, serve as powerful opportunities to learn and to build foundations for how we live our lives with God’s grace. In a nutshell, without God’s grace, I would not be on earth. He has blessed me with healing and graced me with each new day I wake and I am so thankful for the opportunity to be here.

But best outcomes are those that are driven by purpose, with a planned process. When I have a worthy mission, my work has better results for success. Then, the experience is greatest.

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For Karen Chandler, art is a lifetime of learning, experimenting, trying, and putting that knowledge to use for a worthy purpose. Her life has been enriched and inspired by the opportunities, collaborations, and meaningful relationships the world of art has given her. “There is such reward creating with like-minded individuals in the arts.”

Today a mentor in her own right, she feels fulfilled by being able to guide others in the creative process through laughter, experimenting and play.  She hosts poured-acrylic workshops for the public in her home studio.

If you’re interested in participating in one of Karen’s workshops in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, you can sign up here.

Follow Karen on Facebook or Instagram at @clayprinter.

THE ARTIST COLLAGE: GARRETT JOSIAH MOORE

“Can you draw an elephant?!” he asked excitedly.  

The little boy watched intently as the man drew smooth fluid lines on the piece of notebook paper. First a round body, then large floppy ears. A long trunk, and two husks. Large, sturdy legs. The little boy watched in amazement. This man could draw anything. “What if you gave him some clothes?” the boy giggled. The man drew. “He should be playing music!” the boy exclaimed, getting more excited as he watched the elephant come to life.

They sat alone together at the small breakfast table in the dimly-lit kitchen, apart from all of the others. Bursts of laughter exploded from the bright living room, where all the adults were gathered. It was getting late. The boy looked up at the man, waiting for a hint in his face that would give away his longing to join the others. But the man only pushed the sketchbook toward the boy.

“Now you try.”

He fumbled with the pencil as he held it in his little hands, copying the smooth fluid lines that made up the elephant.

“Garrett, it’s time to go home now.” came his mother’s voice as she walked into the kitchen, startling his concentration.

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“Mom, look at this!” He ripped a page out of the sketchbook she had given him for such a time as this, fumbling off the cushioned chair as he proudly ran up to her.

“Wow! Look at that. Maybe you can color it in when we get home.”

“As the boy grew up, he would seek constantly the feelings he felt in that shared creative space. The delight of discovery, the sacredness of creative communion, and the joy of sharing.”

As they walked out the door, the little boy’s hand in his mother’s, he looked back at the man.  “Thank you for spending time with me,” he whispered in his heart.

As the boy grew up, he would seek constantly the feelings he felt in that shared creative space. The delight of discovery, the sacredness of creative communion, and the joy of sharing.

Today, singer-songwriter and visual artist Garrett Moore is offering his own curious creations to the world, and relishes in the opportunity for the connection they bring. As we sat in a bustling coffee shop, he giddily laughed as he retold his childhood moments of creative exploration. Garrett’s creativity has been a lifelong process and project. But today, he shared about his newest musical project: a premier album titled “In the Open,” featuring the lyrical sounds of his baritone ukulele. “In The Open” is both a story and a journey, with each piece touching on the main idea of the project title.

When things are done in the open, they are done in the light. And for a few hours, Garrett was an open book as we talked about faith, creating, and how the urge to do so makes us human and makes us holy.

Who or what inspires you?

“I’m really inspired by people that can make an idea come to fruition. They have great ideas, but it doesn’t stop there. It becomes something. I enjoy people that have a vision and also can bring people beside them to execute it and make it happen. I can observe their life and hear their goals and see that it doesn’t just stay a dream. They’re all people that cultivate community in a creative way.”

How does your faith prompt you to create?

“Creativity comes out of my identity. My identity is a beloved child of the Father—of God. I feel that our God is creative. Us being made in his image, we have that creativity. I am prompted to use the gifts that I’ve been given to honor Him. I feel called to love the people around me, and I feel that sharing things that I’m passionate about through what I create is a way that I love to connect with others. I love sharing in the creative process with others. A common command in the Bible is “do not be afraid.” In engaging creativity, you have to come up against failure a lot and be able to face it. Doing that with others is so exciting. I’ve been in environments where someone isn't so confident, and then all of a sudden they're learning something, and realizing something, and then we’re creating in real time, creating and getting feedback right away. Music is the ideal way for me to engage creatively with other people. Not being afraid, loving one another, and not burying my talents in the ground are ways that my faith prompts me to create.

How do you express your faith in your art and music?

“This question draws answers,
but which one's the truth?
The word shared in community
becomes clear in solitude.
Once we get our answer,
will these meetings resume,
Or is this the final story?
It's the full story.”

Lyrics from The Whole Truth

“It’s kind of contemplative, thoughtful, but playful, and encouraging.”

“All my work is worship any time I’m creating. In the content of my work - say, if I am writing lyrics and singing - I’ll include questions that I have, or testimony; a little bit of my story. Trying to share it in a way that others can connect to. Another way is just sharing hope. I got some feedback from my sister, actually. I asked her about what she thought about my sound, my music, and she said it was kind of “bluesy, but hopeful.” I try to invoke a lot of emotion in what I write, but also like to have playful encouragement. There’s a song I wrote called “Boiling” which is talking about being patient. It’s about taking that familiar scenario of waiting for the water to boil to make pasta and really animating that experience. We all need patience for this sort of thing, you know? If you look beyond the surface of it, it’s a reminder to endure. Although waiting for your food is not really a tribulation (laughs), it’s just encouraging. “The Beginning was Frightening” is a song where I was really trying to reflect on the beginning of my relationship with God, and share the gospel, in a very short way, through that journey. The one song that includes a lot of questions is called “The Whole Truth.” That song was inspired by the woman waiting for many years and found healing when she touched Jesus’ cloak. In the scriptures it says that she shared the “whole truth”. I was wondering, what was that? What did she say? I was thinking about how in that song, when we look at the word together in community, sometimes we don’t really have a complete understanding. But when we begin to process and see it play out in our life, it comes. It’s kind of contemplative, thoughtful, but playful and encouraging.”

In what ways do creating and our humanity go together? How do you feel they relate?

“God hasn’t lost sight of the original image and the original idea for us.”

“Wow! Okay. When you asked that, I think about a lot of words. I think about “nurture,” I think about a garden. In a creative process, we’re taking care of something. We’re seeing something from a seed to the growing stage, to the harvest. That relates to us being worked on - God working on us. In the beginning, you have this idea; that’s the essence of your piece. In some way, throughout the whole process, you’re honoring that original idea. As you’re working you’re refining it, you’re discovering things, you’re surprised by things. It’s that original idea that is really what you don’t lose sight of - why you started creating it. With humanity, God hasn’t lost sight of the original image and the original idea for us. He’s pruning us! So I definitely relate it to that.

...I just remembered hearing that frustration with a friend of mine and his garden. He was like “The crops aren’t doing what I want! I got the seed and it’s not the multi-sunflower, it’s just one! At least that’s what it looks like right now.” Hearing that frustration in that symbolic way, we can learn so much about God’s heart. In creating I can see that He’s gentle and that He has vision and that He’s patient. It requires those same things in us.”

What are you in the process of creating right now?

“I’m in the process of creating an album right now. It’s my first project with multiple songs. This album, and the idea of it, is called “In the Open.” It's kind of bridging my visual work with my audio work. There’s a song that I thought of sharing, the working title is called “First Bicycle Ride.” which comes out of feedback from someone that heard it. It is just an instrumental piece. I shared it in a creative group, we were all sharing something we were working on, and she said it was the first song that really took her back to a positive memory. It was the first time she rode a bicycle. I thought that’s a really beautiful picture, and I want to honor that feedback. The song is trying to embody things I value - of plein air drawing and painting, painting out in the landscape, and observing things; trying to observe things with childlike eyes and not trying to assume that I know what I’m seeing, but investigate it closely. I'm trying to do that in my workplace and visually with what I’m drawing. I’m trying to work with this aesthetic of documentary media, so it’s going to feel kind of like a visual. To me, the album feels like a documentary. It feels like it’s a place for this work that I’m interested in now to touch down. I’m actually surprised that there’s not a lot of words to the work; it’s very instrumental. Hopefully in sharing it and listening to it it would evoke those feelings of visual hope. There's one song that I'm working on and the only words in it are, “You Can Forgive.” You can forgive. I realized in singing it how powerful that word is. Forgive. FOR-give. The ‘g’ and the ‘f’ and the force… I was just reflecting on it, and why when I say those words, I think forgiveness is so important for us. It’s made possible through Jesus that we can. I don’t know, I just want to say those things. I was reading this book, and it was taking me through the Beatitudes and every chapter had to do with some kind of healing. In the Beatitudes it talks about how the pure at heart will see God. It’s all about cultivating that pure heart. One of the chapters talks about forgiving your parents. I reflect on my relationship with my parents and I don’t see a lot of things standing out as things that I should forgive them for, but it was talking about how even the subtle things, like when your mom looks at you and she doesn’t have love in her eyes, how that effects you. Look at that and really process it and then forgive. Even in doing that I've found healing, in areas that I didn’t even think I was hurting. I want to offer that to others too. You can forgive. I feel like there's a question, “This thing in my life was so bad, how can I even forgive”? But that’s the way. That’s the way.”

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Garrett’s album exposes, reveals and clarifies as it brings things out in the open . Songs like “You Can Forgive” reveals hurts and fears;  “The Bicycle Ride” exposes the journey of overcoming failure, having joy and accomplishing something. Each song touches on the intricacies found in the shared human experience. Garrett takes us on this journey with his baritone ukulele—the soothing sounds reminding us that life can be full of play and whimsy, and most importantly we are not alone.

To Garrett, a work is not complete until it’s shared. Sharing a piece of work is not simply a way of saying “I’m done,” but is the most important part of the creative process. “Finishing this album and sharing it with people is taking a leap of faith and modeling the things I’m trying to encourage in others. I’m believing through my actions.” A beautiful reminder we need each other to be complete.

““Finishing this album and sharing it with people is taking a leap of faith and modeling the things I’m trying to encourage in others. I’m believing through my actions.””

“IN THE OPEN”

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