Lindsey Verschuren

Fall 2006, Lindsey thoughts …

My life’s path has been just about as non-linear as anyone’s. Visual art made an appearance in my early childhood days… and it reappeared while consciously “tuning in” as I settled into my twenties.
Four years at Indiana University left me majored in Finance and International Relations, minored in Psychology… and remembering a valuable semester abroad in Australia.
Upon graduating, I moved. From Indiana, to Seattle, to Denver, to Hawaii, back to Denver, to the Bronx… and back “home”, to Detroit. Four years of countless jobs… teaching young children was the closest to a “calling”.
The Sympathetic Vibrational Magnetism (SVM) of the Universe didn’t make me a teacher. SVM surrounded me with a metaphysical world and spiritual answers that I wasn’t, so much, aware that I was seeking. After absorbing my astrology, a co-worker and friend asked me (a “right-handed” person) to use my left hand with visual art in which I found myself dabbling. And now I’m a painter, who uses both hands. Really.
Writing and playing music (guitar, piano, my voice) act as important rivers leading to this big lake or ocean of painting that currently holds a forefront to who I am. And dreaming… dreaming must be all the crucial energetic forms of sea life in this big water.

Each morning, my dreams give birth to what this day can be. And that’s that. From the Bronx, I asked the world to “pay me to paint”. Then I was on a train heading toward Detroit, to present a concept of installing murals into a church. Stepping into this role has been an experience for whose strength I am as grateful as I can be- a great confidant with who to learn life and realization.
Astrology’s shown me a lot, I mentioned my dreams… other artists are infinite, and I do thank them for their trades, whether they are aware, or unaware, of our barter.
Life’s a good thing. All my work evolves with everything that I am fortunate to come to know.