ShaKara McCalley

My Eyes Seeing Inner Peace

The times I’ve felt the most at peace is writing and drawing out something that’s never been seen before, like being the first person to watch a movie that no one else has heard of. What I consider inner peace is when I’m happy, clear headed, and able to express that same feeling with my art and stories. For me that’s being able to create something from my imagination and turn it into something tangible that I can refer back to like recalling a wonderful dream. More times than not I’m by myself listening to music and in those times I sit back with my imagination and want to make something out of my thoughts, in my case it’s drawing. Something that helps me feel this inner peace is drawing and writing stories about my dreams from the nights before. Nothing to in depth like a lifelong dream but something that happened in my imagination while sleeping or listening to music that I can express through my art. I love to draw out the people or creatures I saw in my dream and give them a story that fits them and their different personalities. Sometimes in my dreams I’m viewing other people’s lives and sometimes I’m someone in the dream seeing it through their eyes. My true inner peace is when I can zone out and make those stories in my head and give them a form for myself to see and experience. It’s not always a dream that leads to me drawing and writing but it does make me feel at ease mentally and physically. This expression of creation is definitely something I’d consider a source of happiness that I enjoy for myself.