Meghan’s Artist Manifesto and Manifestation

I am an artist. I am created to create. I use my gift of creativity and connection to take photographs of what is often unseen to the naked eye : Love, Connection, Pain, Tenderness ,Resiliency and beauty. Telling the stories of those beautiful unseen threads of connection that exist between people’s hearts.

My artist eye will capture the unseen in invisible illness with my camera and the photographs and time together will serve as a means of advocacy, a healing balm to each other, and will be a reminder of resilience within the EDS community. I am a storyteller, and I will be vulnerable , and brave with my story to create a space of intimacy and trust with others like me. 

I use my depth of understanding, my empathic and nurturing spirit and my ability to plan and connect to build an online community and educational resource for the ehlers-danlos community. This will create a web of connections and will allow creativity, healing, new ideas, new friendships and new pathways of healing for the connective tissue community. Since I thrive when I am leading, I will lead this community and will create a yearly event of learning, dancing, healing, spirituality and art..etc. I believe the frequency of the flow of art can heal, and I believe that each of us have a healing and artistic gift. 

My creativity will heal my body and soul and it will help everyone I come in contact with on their healing journey. My creativity will provide new and reliable pathways for patient care and management of pain in the ehlers-danlos body, for the collective. My photography will bring new awareness and understanding in a beautifully creative way for the marginalized and the resilience of the human body and spirit. 

My art and the building of this teaching platform and community will provide a steady life-long career for myself with infinite possibilities of growth, grant and sponsorship. My strength and creative genius will be seen by photojournalists, journalists, storytellers, art critics, doctors, producers, editors and writers, educators, trauma victims and therapists, children and adults with chronic pain, healers across the world, and most importantly others who have been alone in their journey with ehlers-danlos syndrome. My life journey is a collective experience and will be seen and turned into a movie/show by the Wachowski sisters.  I will use my leadership platform to encourage, adcovate, educate, nurture, provide safe space, heal, inspire, connect and my light will activate others to awaken to their divine nature. (which EDS is actually angelic DNA..most have this)

When I get discouraged, scared, overwhelmed or off balance I will take a deep breath and center myself and remember why I take photographs and create art and share my healing path : to connect with others, to bring healing to the world and to express myself artistically WHILE also showing others what I see inside of them…living my life as an example of what we are capable of as human. My life serves as a connective mirror. 

Making art as a career HAS AND WILL provide a stable and reliable income for me until I retire. My artistic expression has no limits, and will be sought after more and more as my story becomes known and seen by a wider audience. I will always have the best insurance. My camera and my healing search are my pathways to see the world and experience different cultures. I will have time and energy to care for my body, to make delicious food for myself and my family, I will have a flexible schedule and will not have to EVER over-extend myself physically. I will never burn out because I know how to create a healthy flow of creative and life balance. 

I am brave enough to chart my own career path, to teach my own way, to advocate and learn about my body in ways that have never been done before. I am brave enough to have a career shrouded in unknown and mystery and I trust I will always get the work I can handle. 

I share my abundance with friends and family. I have a small house by the ocean and a small house in the mountains and a vacation home I share with my family. I travel in my van to speak, teach, shoot, commune with healers and mother gaia and connect to other EDSers. 

My photography and platform will allow me to collaborate with other talented artists both within the EDS community and outside.My photographs will change lives and will create a space for isolated people to feel seen and know that they are never alone in their experience (even if they ARE lonely). I will be invited into homes across the world and will witness and learn and document how others love and live meaningful lives with life-long disabilities that are always changing. 

My artistic career will flow as smoothly as honey and will be an extension of my life and will bring fulfillment and purpose to my existence on earth. I will leave a lasting legacy with my art and the creative expression of my fully-embodied life.