Giselle Buchanan

Visual Artist & Writer

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This Sunday! I will be working the MoCADA table but will also be sharing a table of my own with @vagabroadjournals and @ureadpress. Come to Weeksville Heritage Center to listen to @ayomusic and @jennahbellmusic, then buy from some of the brilliant vendors I helped coordinate! Noon-7PM!
Pushing through the mental blockages and making a way with grace. Accepting and creating my blessings like this.
I adore these photos from @purpleferdinand of my #loveletterzine. So grateful to all those around the world I've been able to connect with because of the internet and because of the art. I will continue to share, so that I may find all of you who resonate with the workings of my heart. You can still purchase my zine at Gisellebuchanan.com/shop and use the code JOURNEY for 20% off to support my upcoming travels! It is also your choice of 2 rewards for the $20 donation level in the gofundme link in my bio. Lovelovelove.
Hey beautiful people. Are any of you currently enrolled/working in a college/university or have friends who are? You can be anywhere! If so, can you message me or tag your friend in the comments? Sending so much love.
Always on the lookout for moments of magic. . . . #flowers #roses #beauty #livecolorfully #venus #marigolds #vscocam #flashesofdelight
Ritual.
I realized recently that I've been silencing my voice for many years. In the absence of your voice, there's a space for people to decide who you are for themselves, to name you, to project. In fear of being 'wrong' I chose not to speak. When you have a voice, you're vulnerable. People will praise you or they will demonize you for your point of view. It's impossible for everyone to value you or agree with all you say. In a subconscious attempt to preserve my sensitive spirit (fragile ego even?) I refrained from revealing a complete version myself. Reflection and conversations with friends made me realize that now isn't the time for safety. There is no space for the good to be timid. For the kind hearts shrinking in fear of their light. Evil is present and it is loud, boisterous and enticing in its certainty. It is imperative that I speak, even if I am finding what I need to say as I go. Even if what I believe will soon change. This silencing has shown itself in a number of ways in my life. For one, I never liked being specific when I called myself an artist. I looked around at those in my community doing the various disciplines I am committed to in my personal practice and because I felt they are already doing X or because they went to school for Y, they were more worthy to claim it as their title than I was. I realized yesterday that this modesty is actually a hinderance instead of a virtue as I once thought. I am more than worthy to claim all of my titles as absolute. As I get older, I am affirmed in the knowing that everything isn't for everybody. Each act of creation holds within it an energetic resonance. What is created is for the person or people who are a vibrational match. My only responsibility is to myself. Honoring my voice and my call to speak or create. To trust that these little acts of listening will sharpen my ear until that which is supposed to come through me has a clear and receptive vessel. Good is subjective and God is creation. Is art. So speak. Listen to yourself. Do your work in reverence. The world needs it. The world needs you now. I say this to me first and then to all of you. #stepintoyourgreatness #womenwhorunwiththewolves
Two angels spent the most lovely weekend with me a few weeks ago. #hummingbirdcasa
If you missed my last reading, no worries! I will be participating in a community art instillation and performance with the @laundromat_proj and @theblackschool. Come through to Harlem, pick up a zine, support black arts and love. #loveletterzine

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