Today we’d like to introduce you to Julie Worsham.
Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
This is my never-ending rabbit hole. It’s always in progress and never complete. I’m a Pisces baby born March 1980. You can find me typically barefoot, covered in paint, prolly making messes in the sun. There’s a beast that lives inside of me, so things like art and photography tame my inner chaos. My mood swings around the weather and music. I prefer things candid, whimsical, minimal, and by hand. Simplicity with dabs of imperfection send me to my “bad is good” happy place.
I’ve produced photos and art for Le Méridien Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Starwood Hotels & Resorts), Anthropologie Store, various restaurants and bars, salons, music festivals, custom home art, Airbnb spaces, retail spots, and pray the Universe keeps sending me more.
Please tell us about your art.
For the past decade, my time circles around photography (film + digital formats), graphic design, alternative print techniques, abstract painting, large mixed-media art, then tastefully blending and layering these crafts together.
My current body of work is a mixture of my photography with layered abstracts on wood. It’s highly distressed and imperfect, just like some of the day’s life can throw you. Subjects center around the phyche, astrology, self-healing, and the quantum world. Through my own healing/learning, it’s all made up of the same science.
Art is the way I heal daily, it surfaces my flow state. When I have indefinitely stopped thinking, my healing is complete. It’s a struggle daily. We all have it.
I live by this — To be driven by primitive instinct/intuition, not the conditioning or logic of modern man society. Embrace risk as your servant. Trust your path. Listen to your stillness.
My aim in what I produce is to make you feel empowered, free, raw, not afraid of anything…To know your true potential comes from the inside out. To help activate those energies that fuel and inspire your higher-self.
I recently created a secondary website (AimlessFeathers.com) that focuses around my current work and message. My original website (2Tired2Sleep.com) houses most of my archived portfolio from past art/photo commissions.
Given everything that is going on in the world today, do you think the role of artists has changed? How do local, national or international events and issues affect your art?
In my eyes, the role of an artist is to inspire, expose, experiment, and explore…There are some many rich topics you can pull from when creating. I’ve seen a plethora of it from so many angles.
I enjoy seeing what each artist absorbs from their view of life, then spitting it out into something amazing. Even if it’s built around topics that upset you (politics, war or whatever), to see it in art form helps (me personally) process the information in a better light.
Being an artist once was somewhat looked down upon. It’s interesting to see art take the spotlight. Today I think there’s huge support for the creatives across the board. Folks are being funded on sites like GoFundMe, Patreon, etc-etc… Becoming a social influencer can get you supply sponsors. There’s really cool stuff happening! The world is shifting at a great speed!
I hope art continues to be a source for beauty, abstract thought, imperfections, current events and so on. It’s just another tool in so many ways for the artist to release something and the observer to feel something (that moves them both). It’s an equal exchange of energy.
How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
The Retrograde Collection is now available for purchase. You can set up a time to come by my downtown studio for viewings. My secondary website (AimlessFeathers.com) has full info about each piece. Feel free to contact me through either of my websites, you can also message me directly through Instagram or Facebook.
Contact Info:
- Website: 2tired2sleep.com and aimlessfeathers.com
- Email: jules@2tired2sleep.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/2tired2sleep/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julesworsham
Image Credit:
Julie Worsham
Suggest a story: VoyageHouston is built on recommendations from the community; it’s how we uncover hidden gems, so if you or someone you know deserves recognition please let us know here.
