When I look back at some of my past blogs I notice that I work through so many of my own problems here.
Obviously, this blog has fewer views than my Instagram but it feels more like a private platform as if the people that come here to read these keep it to themselves.
In a sense, this is an extension of my journaling, and this year I’ve told myself I am going to focus on what I am doing right instead of always aiming to fix my problems.
With this new aim for 2021 I not only want to focus on those things I am doing well I want to double down on them and I think you should too.
I feel so much more grateful for what I have in my life when I practice a more positive version of awareness.
I’m most grateful for my community right now.
I had no work pretty much all of 2020 until the fall hit and it seemed like the work has been constant since.
When everything changed and I began to work again things became better than they were before the quarantine.
I wondered how this happened and after asking the clients almost every job was from a recommendation.
This is strictly because of the community I have in Nyc and it is one that I am forever grateful for.
A big part of that community has come from supporting other businesses and even some from working at the tattoo shop featured below.
The name Atelier Eva pretty much means Eva’s Artist workshop and it doesn’t feel at all like a tattoo shop.
It’s more of an artist’s boutique for lack of better words.
Each piece in the shop flows from design to functionality.
It’s lined with concrete stucco walls and warmed with wooden accents and benches throughout the space.
Every single thing in the shop was handpicked by the owner and head artist who sees the space as an artist collective rather than a tattoo shop.
Also to note most of the furniture and lighting is all from other local artists or artists from her home country of Turkey.
This is what supporting your community looks like.
The shop has an immediate connection with all the artists who work there as well as the artists who made the fixtures that sit in the space.
I’m grateful to be around people I can learn from each day and I’m excited to double down on my community building this year because we all need it more than ever.
All the best,
Atticus
