An Introvert's Studio Diary: Authenticity | Atelierovo Art

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" Trust your own strength."

Ivi

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Teaching, painting, precious moments with good friends around the fire, changes. Things are falling into place at their own rhythm and we can barely keep up. Time is often a completely incomprehensible thing.

We’re both clumsily trying to find our footing and build something with a solid foundation. We don’t see results right away. We have a heap of failures, lessons and hard knocks behind us - ones that redirect us into different ways of functioning, earning a living and paying for all those “ordinary things” that somehow belong to this “Matrix” we’re all living in.

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I look into the fire and I still feel, somehow, that everything happening carries a deep meaning.

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For us, it’s always been that way. And time always confirms it. For our own growth, for our own shift - so that we can move through what comes and goes with lightness. We know that together we can handle anything - even when we’re limping along, leaning on each other, and one of us simply can’t go on in a given moment. We stumble on our creative path. Sometimes it’s just too much for one person.

The days when we manage to ride the wave are breathtaking. They help me feel that tuning into lightness and flow is completely natural - when I consciously free my mind and stop taking my inner critic so deadly seriously (as I so often do).

And when I find myself moving through the deepest darkness of my own existence, looking my biggest fears directly in the eye - I begin to understand that they’re there to help me grow. They’re afraid too. It’s like something out of The Lord of the Rings, which has been running through my mind a lot lately.

Frodo: “Who can I trust, then?”

Gandalf: “You must trust yourself. Trust your own strength.”

So… Yes, it’s hard. But that doesn’t mean we’re giving up.

We’re building our own little world gradually, in slow steps. It’s a small island for people - a community where art and creativity, discovering one’s own imagination and inspiration, still carries deep meaning.

People are capable of overcoming the limits and beliefs they once saw as something unchangeable. A fixed part of who they are.

But nothing is unchangeable.

It’s a choice.

And maybe it’s precisely with that new choice that change arrives.

But this change demands enormous courage. It leads to uncharted territories, adventurous paths, challenges - and a look into our own thirteenth chamber.

Maybe the fact that a shift in human consciousness isn’t immediately visible - only means that the shift already has deeply sown roots today, from which a beautiful space with a solid foundation is gradually growing.

Somehow, I know this inside myself.

Because the freedom of spirit is already here. Together with harmony of mind and heart.And that requires our discipline. And above all - waking up from the game in which everything is always someone else’s fault. Never our own.

Authenticity. Is truly a virtue.

I allow myself to become who I came here to be.

And you?

With love,

~ Ivi

~ Atelierovo Art

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