Inner Beauty By Sierra's Mission
When it knows good as good, evil arises
Thus being and non-being produce each other
Difficult and easy bring about each other
Long and short reveal each other
High and low support each other
Music and voice harmonize each other
Front and back follow each other
Therefore the sages:
Manage the work of detached actions
Conduct the teaching of no words
They work with myriad things but do not control
They create but do not possess
They act but do not presume
They succeed but do not dwell on success
It is because they do not dwell on success
That it never goes away."
As most things in life, the two opposite sides defines each other. They also co-exist as two sides of the same coin. Art is not an exception in the law of nature. Art is an expression of life.
Since I started to embrace my full-time artist career, my relationship with "beauty" also began to shift. The outer beauty of how all elements in an art piece coming together is, naturally, a by-product rather than the goal of the art practice. It means that the process of making art is simply about playing and interacting with the materials, with the strokes, with the sketches. As beauty and ugliness define each other, forms and space defines each other, when we allow ourselves to just play and explore, creative images and ideas will slowly arise.
Inner beauty, for me, is another way to say "my relationship with myself". It's the radical acceptance that I practice on a daily basis. My inner beauty is my willingness to keep looking inward, to keep trying to understand my own mystery, to keep learning to accept all parts of me. My art is an extension, and sometimes an honest reflection of this journey.
I started to illustrate full-time since 2019, it has been a wild ride. Many things have changed since then. However, the "why" from day one stays the same.
This is the mission statement of Inner Beauty By Sierra in short:
To inspire people to tap into their inner beauty in order to live their most authentic and abundant lives.
