Lenny’s Land protection act update
Hello friends I come to you with an update! I continue to create meaningful work for myself through reclaimed wood art on Prince Edward Island and I consider myself very lucky to have found a true passion. I'm growing less interested in marketing website upkeep and sales projections and the idea of being good at business in general. My strengths continue to be in self expression. This is to update you on the plan that to me clearly illustrates my needs while giving you an opportunity to support me and my art. This act has enabled me so far to continue to do my work, so a big thank you to all who have supported me in the first push of this land protection act.
Over the past few months I've had more mental breakthroughs than I have breakdowns and this is the direction that I want to be going in. Over the last five years I've been slowly gaining interest and momentum in daily meditation practice and in addition to that I'm now spending much of my time listening to talks lectures on mindfulness, Buddhism and other practises, that process being in the world and our relationship to it differently. I've come to understand that when I intellectually separate the world from myself it instantly becomes something I want to control. Dropping this narrative and replacing it with a unified one where the world and I are a co-emergence of whatever this life is, has given me a new sense of peace and a foundation that I can act from. Some of this came after seeking professional help and receiving a new diagnosis. It wasn't any different then in the past but there were a couple of new notable behavioural patterns. I'm grateful I was able to access a professional and bring my thoughts out in the open. During that time I felt I was ready to wean myself off of anti-depressants… and I'm three months out from that right now. I can't be certain if it's the summer sunshine or being unmedicated now but I'm feeling very good and have been extremely productive lately. In hindsight I think the anti-depressants reinforced an aloof “okayness" when it came to Life. There is no urgency… creating apathy, especially when it came to actually creating art. Thankfully that spell seems to have broken. All that being said I hope the tone of this update is a little brighter than the last. When being open about my mental health in public and because my work and my art are not separate from my mental life I fear being seen as desperate or looking for sympathy but that's not my intent at all. I'm just trying to be open and honest with my process.
Now onto the land protection act. OK since I began this project I have been very productive. My home gallery is full of new pieces some of which are already on the website. I have also listed the different plots on the website now so you can purchase them on there. Just scroll down in the drop-down menu to quirkshop and the options are there. You can sponsor a piece of land in the outer two rings and I'll plant something for you there. Or you can sponsor the plots on the inner rings and receive a piece of my artwork. Please see below image for available plot options (242 plots remain). As I am still working to keep my head above water I haven't begun the building/planting process but I'm very much happily swimming toward that end. The time it takes is not my concern. Again thank you for the support I've already received as it is what has enabled me to get to this more clear and peaceful place.
And this is the part where I ask you to start thinking about the person that would love to receive a piece of my artwork as a gift, and how that gifting will create a meaningful trio of happiness.
Please consider buying my art.
Until the next update, I (probably) love you,
Lenny
