Rosalie Smith (@rosalieglsmith) is a New Orleans based interdisciplinary artist who uses poetry, organic materials, and alternative archival documentation in her installations and 2-dimensional work. Her work pertains to grief, impermanence, and attachment.

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I recently restarted "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron with a small group of artists, writers, and musicians. We have just begun week three. While the book focuses on artists who are very blocked, which I don't completely identify with in my present form, I am really enjoying the exercises. The book is helping me find independence in the pursuit of joy, and I'm feeling creatively free. I would recommend it to artists at any stage in their career.

The Way asks that you write three pages of word dump every morning called the "morning pages," which I have done on and off for the past year and a half. I find that the pages give immediate purpose to my day when I am intentional about waking for them.

I have oddly begun growing mushrooms as part of my newly invigorated creative practice. I have been learning to identify mushrooms since the beginning of quarantine, so learning to grow them has felt like a natural step.

I have completed this painting for my upcoming show at The Front. The canvas was water damaged when I acquired it, so I cut off the water damaged section and flipped it to expose the marks. The painting also contains heat transferred scans of bandages from a staff infection, a scan of my Covid Stimulus check, diary pages, and a drawing of the floor plan of the house I had to leave due to Covid.