Thinking on Art

This blog post reflects on artist Moya Radley's transformative experience painting in the Nevada desert in 2023. Faced with intense heat, unfamiliar terrain, and the disorienting challenge of driving and creating in a foreign environment, Moya was pushed well outside her comfort zone. When her travel companion contracted Covid early in the trip, it...

After two discouraging comments about her artistic ability — one from a passerby and another from a fellow artist — Moya fell into a period of deep self-doubt, questioning her value and role as an artist. This led her to withdraw from creating and instead turn inward, drawing on her philosophical training to explore the purpose and meaning of...