Hello, I’m Atalanta.
Welcome to my little corner of the interwebs. It’s a creative space where I’m cultivating more authentic self-expression, after decades of suppression due to difficult circumstances and unkind influences. It’s been a long, labyrinthine, painful and sometimes confusing journey but I’m coming out the other side – and gaining momentum with each year. I’m walking my path with far more wisdom, patience, discernment and confidence than I had a few years ago. It was all hard won, but I’m choosing to persevere. Trust in the process is always the most difficult and nerve-wracking step.
Flipping the Script.
This creative path I’m on is one I naturally gravitated towards as an innately artistic child but was diverted towards a a counter-intuitive path, being strongly dissuaded from the calling that pulled me – and instead was pushed to a more mundane and “safer” choice. I was systematically deterred from my own creative dreams and visionary goals, fed a constant stream of negative opinions and rhetoric about starving artists and needing to get a “real job” to support myself financially – as if that was the only thing one should ever focus on in life. No wonder I fell into a soul-sucking depression and felt so lost – I was surrounded by such miserable people!
A Bold Choice.
After nearly three decades of listening to that depressing drivel to only come up both empty handed and deeply unfulfilled, I decided to tune out the negative Nellies. Now I make bold moves towards my own desires regardless of how other people think about my vocational path. Everything that comes forth into this space and other platforms of mine is ultimately geared towards living a more creative life & pursuing a more artistic vocation.
So, With That Being Said…
It is my hope that the people attracted to my space, my personality, or my path are inspired by my process and the work that is created along the way and become an integral part of the Fractal. To become a part of the Fractal check out my other platforms and participate in the unfolding!