ISABELLE LEE

I am a heart-centered artist of vibration who shares the medicine that is music to diverse communities in a way that’s accessible, empowering, collaborative, and healing.

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It shouldn’t be radical to say that we all deserve to be healthy. We all deserve holistic wellness, which is built on balance. We deserve enough time to rest, to process our feelings, to socialize, to relax, to do our hobbies, along with working. Play and exploration are not just for children; they are essential for all our wellbeing. When we play and explore, we stumble into new possibilities and see the abundance of what our world can be. Our ideas and imaginations

expand into visions. This comes from both being allowed to and allowing ourselves to be creative.

The power of creativity is the power of change. However, we have a societal tendency to exalt the creativity (while suggesting that it is a trait that only some possess) and have a phobia of change.

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Music itself is change; music moves me when it lifts, slides, tiptoes, rips, bounces from note to note. In fact, the way I see my whole world is through the lens of pitch and tempo,

tensions and releases, structures and the voids, harmony and dissonance, reliable cycles and sudden shocks, sound and silence. Music is movement, yet many songs are composed of loops, repeating patterns of rhythm and melody, which provide a consistent sonic terrain through which we can move with both safety and freedom. Everything moves, but often in seasons, orbits, inhales and exhales that cycle back again.

 

As a teaching artist who looks forward to growing and learning so much more, I help others (re)awaken themselves as artists. To be an artist is to be a creator, to have the power to make. Together we welcome in a loving revolution, which centers and uplifts nature, art, expression, presence, community, balance, justice, holistic wellbeing, and play. In Daoism, the yin-yang symbol ☯ represents an equal balance of complementary energies. In mainstream patriarchal U.S. society, yin energy could be described by much that has been designated as feminine or childlike, and thus deprioritized, devalued, and discouraged. We urgently need to rebalance to foster, nurture, encourage, and celebrate abundant yin energy for the health of the whole planet. To slow down our rhythms, taking the time to grow organically and connect lovingly with all parts of ourselves, to grow past fear and limitations and embrace change to evolve and mutate into an ever-more loving world. To do so is both radical and also inevitable, following ancient and already-existing movements, traditions, cultures, and structures in a

natural rebalancing that has come to visit us again with the exuberance of spring sunshine.