🏛️🦋 Welcome to the Museum of Forrest 🦋🏛️

I showed my family (my Dad, Step-Mom, Sister, and Brother-in-law) the museum (( museumofforrest.com !!! )) the other night, and it felt really good ! 😌 See, I often feel like the black-sheep in my family, and sometimes wonder if they think that all I do is sit around all day. And while certainly, my work-schedule is almost completely free-flowing (for example, it's 11:46pm rn), my contributions to this world DO exist, and they ARE legitimate.

Being an artist + entrepreneur is a VERY personal journey, and requires a completely different skill set + array of personality traits than completing a university degree or working for someone else. It requires courage, passion, discipline, and vision - and I am proud to be the continuous cultivator of all these traits.

Although it did feel relaxing to watch my family realize more of who I am: a hard worker, a trail-blazer...professional, prolific, and valuable - it's simultaneously VERY important for me to continue leaning into my unique path, outside of what I perceive them to respect and value.
[the polarity of attachment + authenticity]

After showing my family the museum, my Dad + Nancy gave me some really awesome feedback. The next morning, I decided to re-record the intro vid, and include more in it about how A) I want the viewer to self-reflect, B) the effect that this experience has had on me, and also C) that if other artists are curious about making their own museums, they should totally hit us up !!!

It was a bit rushed, what with it being our last couple hours before hitting the road back home, so its a bit more direct ~~ but done is better than perfect! I'm also heading off on a month-long adventure at the crack of dawn tomorrow (starting with a week off the grid), so wrapping up my work today (including editing this vid) is an ongoing and imperfect marathon.

But reviewing it all, I realize...I am SO grateful to get to COMMUNICATE who I AM and TELL MY STORIES ! Like...making endless content...is just me endlessly communicating my Truth. I feel like I could never be mad at that again. I'm so grateful to be free. Freedom of speech, of self-expression...is a miracle and I just feel incredibly blessed.