Late thoughts

I’m less than ten days away from my birthday, and I have lots of insights coming to me that I really want to translate into words.

I’ve already written how this year was very much about the Why, the reason behind what we’re doing. And I believe it’s healthy to dedicate time to that, in order to move forward with clarity.

For most of my life, my why was rooted in the idea of gathering people, through art, through creativity in general, for the idea of peace.
But for many reasons, I’ve decided to let go of this narrative. Not because I no longer relate to it, but because I now believe that peace is something we embody.
It’s in the way we live our lives, not necessarily something we need to constantly make visible or prove.

What truly excites me is the idea of contributing to something bigger than myself.
To create for a higher purpose. In my case, through art curation, it’s about creating spaces where artists, and myself, can fully express ourselves.

I truly believe beauty can save us. Not in a superficial way, but in the sense that beauty is a synonym for love. To create something beautiful is to create with love, to quote Alan Moore. And this gives me a deep and lasting sense of fulfillment.

It’s this éblouissement, that sense of awe, that brings us back to what really matters. Through all these paintings, photographs, and words created… we might contribute to something that elevates us. And that means everything to me.

Walking through Paris every day, I’ve realised how many people have played a role to making it beautiful. And for sure, it does take a village to make that happen. I feel that, at my very humble scale, I get to orchestrate, just a little, to art being created. And in a way, these daily walks have become a quiet source of motivation, a gentle reminder that beauty is always the result of many people coming together.

And maybe… that’s the Why I was longing for.

So I’m deeply thankful to be able to do what I love most in life, and to have many inspiring people trusting me along the way.

Something I’ll never take for granted.

With love,
Yeo