International Soul Art Day Gallery

What Inspired you to do a Soul Art journey?

I participated in my first Soul Art Day in 2016, and I’ve taken part every year since. I love the vibrant energy of Soul Art Day—creating alongside thousands of people from around the world. What I enjoy most is the creative, intuitive process of making Soul Art itself.

How would you describe your creative process?

Creative processes move at their own pace. On Wednesday—Soul Art Day—I laid down the base layer, and then… nothing. I had no idea what to do next. So many ideas passed through my mind: maybe this, maybe that. But nothing felt quite right. Then, this morning (Sunday), while sitting quietly, it came to me—I saw how the wired pieces with silver butterflies, which had been lying around, could fit in. The piece is still in progress, but this is how far I’ve come so far.

What insight did you receive from your Soul Art?

What I saw in this piece was both the butterfly emerging into the world and the chrysalis that nurtures it. The butterfly only takes flight when its transformation is complete—but to reach that point, it needs a strong, safe chrysalis to grow within.

As a metaphor for my own life, I realized that the transformation from pupa to butterfly isn’t a single moment—it’s a lifelong, ongoing process. To truly thrive in the world, I need both: wings to fly and explore, and a grounded, secure chrysalis to return to.

My dream is a “dual living” lifestyle—spending part of the year in one country, and part in another. But I’m not a digital nomad. I need a solid home base, a place I can always return to no matter what happens. The feeling this piece evoked in me was just that: having a stable, nurturing home gives me the safety, trust, and courage to take flight and explore the world with confidence and faith.

What is the most important thing you would like to share about your Soul Art experience?

Soul Art Day—and the days that followed—were tough. I found myself overwhelmed by emotions and complex feelings, when I had expected the experience to be joyful and purely creative. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all. I kept thinking it should have gone differently, that I should have done this or that instead.

But again, this morning—a few days later—I was reminded of something deeper: the real experience is the experience itself. That’s where the work is. That’s where the transformation begins.

Instead of pushing those feelings away or judging myself for how things unfolded, I see now that the invitation is to sit with the complexity. To feel it. To find ways to express it creatively. To alchemise it.

In this process, I began to sense a reflection—those emotions, those struggles—mirrored in the butterfly, the chrysalis, and the delicate, necessary stage of transformation between the two.