ABOUT.

I'm an artist and a psychotherapist, and the through line between those two things is everything I make and think about and write.

I work in mixed media, paintings, collages, always experimenting with something new. The process is layered and intuitive and usually a little unclear at the beginning, which used to bother me and now feels like maybe that's the point. I'm almost always following something rather than directing it, letting the work become what it needs to be. That has taken a lot of work to get comfortable with. It's also just how I move through life, in the studio and outside of it.

I'm not sure I learned any of this. Layering, reworking, sitting with not knowing, it's just how I'm wired. Growing up around people who made things probably shaped that in ways I'm still figuring out.

My background in psychotherapy informs how I see people and experience the world. I'm interested in complexity and nuance and the space where more than one thing can be true at the same time. I don't think people are broken. I think most of us are just a little disconnected from ourselves, from our creativity, from the life we can feel, but aren't quite living yet.

The art, the writing, the way I live, it's all one conversation. That's what Field Notes is. Me thinking out loud about creativity, inner life and what it actually looks like to live with more freedom and full expression. If any of that sounds like your kind of conversation, you can get the essays in your inbox below.

xx, Michel