Corita Kent's 10 Rules

Corita Kent is one of my favorite artists. She was a nun and a professor, but then she left both the church and higher education and just lived and made her art and wore beautiful dresses. I suspect she both loved her teaching and her God and was exhausted by the bureaucracy of organized religion and schooling. 

 I have been away from my creative practice for about a year. I had been going to a weekly handbuilt ceramics class, but I needed a break. As is typical for me, without that external structure that a formal course provides, I stopped creating. That said, I was thinking back to when I was creating like wildfire in the early pandemic lockdown months and years, but that was a different time. I want and need to get back to making. 

As I was going through some of my old artwork last night I came across Corita's famous list of rules, and of course, the most important one is, "The only rule is work." It doesn't matter what you (I) do or whether it's good or bad or what medium it is or if it says what I want it to say or if it speaks to the collapse era or not. What matters is that you (I) show up and work. 

I also love this first rule for us ADHDers and neurodivergents and anyone struggling with sustaining anything of meaning lately: "Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while." A great example of loving structure.