Living Art
This is the ongoing journal of my personal awakening. Through up to date and un-edited realness, I hope to help you walk through your own awakening with more balance, love and ease.
As I watch my videos, the phrase that comes to mind is “living art”. These videos are not meant as performance — they are real life in-the-moment feelings expressed through movement. That is part of why I’m hesitant to share them widely — because I’m worried they will be evaluated as performance. Because that I what I do to myself. I look at them and see where I’ve lost my focus, where I’ve lost the thread of what was going on only a moment before.
In performance you can’t stop, you can’t forget the point of what you are doing in that moment. But, in life there are times where I forget what I’m doing. I forget myself…and stop. And I can see those places in the videos. They are a reflection of life, a reflection of me and of my journey in that exact moment. And that is something unique to me. Which is where the doubts come back. What if I share these videos and people don’t get it?
So what? Does that make it any less of a real moment that I lived? Is it no longer true? It scares me to post because it shines a light on my differences, which I have spent years feeling like I want to hide. Of course it will take me time to get used to letting this part of me into the light.
Julia Coplan, an intuitive artist, uses dance, photography and writing to get unstuck from mental chatter and allow creativity to flow through.
