A LETTER FROM THE CREATOR, Cici Pagán
“Live Your Life Thoughtfully, Graciously, Artfully…
Live Creatively”
I’m a mom, wife, daughter, and sister just like you! I’m not special but I’ve definitely learned to appreciate my uniqueness. I’ve learned how to work with it, instead of trying to fix it. I believe we’ve been extended grace and so I had to learn to give myself grace. When we stop striving for an idea perfection, either our own or someone else’s, we are able to find joy and satisfaction in just being the best version of ourselves.
My blog and my brand, Cici Pagán Creative Living LLC, is dedicated to this concept described above. As a woman, a wife, and a mother, I often feel like the ring master of my own little stressful circus. I refuse to add the unnecessary burdens of guilt, perfectionism, or the coulda-wouda-shoudas of judging eyes and tongues (including my own). I’m choosing to celebrate the people I love, cherish things that bring me joy, and live in a place of gratitude for the blessings of today. My hope is that through my blog you will find, as in the words of Maya Angelou, “We are all more alike than unalike,” and feel a sense of community and support.
“I Don’t Belong Here” Original Artwork Cici Pagán 2018
I use the term “creative living” because none of us have a perfect life. We find ourselves in circumstances that we never expected and situations we could have never predicted. The thing is no matter what happens, for better or worse, life goes on. If we wait for the perfect circumstances or situations we will find we missed out on living because we were waiting for the perfect life. So what do we do? We choose how we navigate and react to whatever we find ourselves in. We find lessons where others see failure, we build with silver instead of waiting for gold, and we use tools like gratitude to find joy in having a glass even if that glass is half full and room temp! We choose how we will respond to events in our life and we choose who and what we let get top billing. That’s what I mean by creating your life.
My art
I’ve been an working artist and maker, creating and selling for most of my life. Though I’ve worked in many various mediums for decades, I’ve only started working in oil paint in 2013. and acrylic in 2018. I started by painting realism but I found my happy place moving between various categories of abstract art. You’ll find my gallery full of vibrant color, impasto texture, and mixed media. My focus is in weaving the tales of conscious and unconscious human emotion, it’s results, both personally and universally, along with aspects of nature and natural phenomena. I seek to express the intangible connection of it all producing an aggressive catalyst for introspection.
These are uncertain times and it’s my desire to pass on to you, through my art, boutique, and blog, thoughts, ideas, and cherished items you can use in creating your own life.
Friend, we must deliberately be conscious of how we live and process life around us in order to maintain our joy. Join me in celebrating all the ways we can live creatively; and curate our lives thoughtfully, graciously, and beautifully! You can leave me comments on my blog or email me with messages or questions. And don’t forget to follow me on Instagram or any of the social media options below!
xoxo,
Cici Pagán