Effectuation as a tool to fuel imagination & maintain hope:

Baltimore is a city of endless possibility.

Systems and structures were created to oppress; we must create to liberate.

We are constantly grieving and evolving with the need to identify, understand, and cope with the influence of our thoughts, emotions, and actions in our past, present, and future.

Our desire is to be and feel seen, heard, and protected.

Love is care for the fullness of an individuals’ multiplicity.

There is nothing missing or lacking in me (or you).

We have all we need: “who we are, who we know, what we know.”

“Art is a wound turned into light.” — Georges Braque

And abstraction is to “perceive beyond the tangible… extract the infinite out of the finite… and emancipate the mind.” — Arshile Gorky

Personal & Community Credo —