Jayne.Press: A Place Where You Can Be Human

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the intellectual and spiritual values that lie hidden in a poem, a painting, or a piece of music, discovers a spiritual vitality that lifts it above itself, takes it out of itself, and makes it present to itself on a level of being that it did not know it could ever achieve.”  -Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Jayne.Press has always been my artist space. It’s a place where I can create in different ways. Sometimes, it’s poetry, sometimes it’s short stories, sometimes it’s just me rambling on about tiny snapshots of my journey. I like that I’ve created this space where I can let myself be weird and unhinged. What I have learned from Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, and Salman Rushdie is that we don’t have to make much up in our writing; we already live in a very strange world. With that being said, fiction is my freedom. Writing is my liberation. I liberate myself every single time I sit at this keyboard and let myself be exactly who I am in that moment. There’s been nothing else like it for me.

Thank you for joining me on this fantastic journey.