About :
My name is Olivia Johnson. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
I am Local Artist in the Salt Lake City, Utah.
I also am a LMT (licensed massage therapist) and provide various forms of bodywork as my main form of income.
Personal History/ Background:
Primary right brained, artwork has always come easily to me. I’ve always felt like an outsider, and aside from the fact I grew up in Utah not a part of the LDS church I frequently felt different than kids my age. I always felt very sensitive to my environment, noticed the colors and details of things that others would overlook, sounds would bother me significantly more than the average kid. I felt deeply connected to nature, and often felt the emotions of other people, eventually even began to feel their physical ailments as well.
I’ve come to learn in my adult life this is categorized as something called being a hyper sensitive or intuitive person. I have dealt with some deep trauma in my childhood as well as adult life. One of those events being losing my dad at the age of 13. The pain of this loss has molded and shaped me in countless ways. It has been a catalyst for both my art inspiration and healing career.
Mission:
One thing that has always been a hard pill to swallow me is the thought of death, even before my dad passing. Death haunts me and frees me at the same time. Its also given me an immense amount of wonder, depth, creativity, and appreciation for the present moment. The fact is nothing is permanent every form of energy dissolves through time. This breaking apart of and dissolving of form is what we will all have to face time and time again during our existence on this planet. We live in a realm of duality. The pain creates the joy. The loss creates the gain, our unconscious creates our conscious, shadows are created by light. and the emptiness creates the form. Sunyata. When we realize that all things are connected, there really is no separation, this only occurs in our minds,. we move into our hearts, into unity; and transcend time and space. We merge with the source we all came from. My mission as an artist and a bodyworker is to allow the unconscious to become conscious. To shed the light of awareness on the darker spaces within us. All is divine, even the shadows.
My name is Olivia Johnson. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
I am Local Artist in the Salt Lake City, Utah.
I also am a LMT (licensed massage therapist) and provide various forms of bodywork as my main form of income.
Personal History/ Background:
Primary right brained, artwork has always come easily to me. I’ve always felt like an outsider, and aside from the fact I grew up in Utah not a part of the LDS church I frequently felt different than kids my age. I always felt very sensitive to my environment, noticed the colors and details of things that others would overlook, sounds would bother me significantly more than the average kid. I felt deeply connected to nature, and often felt the emotions of other people, eventually even began to feel their physical ailments as well.
I’ve come to learn in my adult life this is categorized as something called being a hyper sensitive or intuitive person. I have dealt with some deep trauma in my childhood as well as adult life. One of those events being losing my dad at the age of 13. The pain of this loss has molded and shaped me in countless ways. It has been a catalyst for both my art inspiration and healing career.
Mission:
One thing that has always been a hard pill to swallow me is the thought of death, even before my dad passing. Death haunts me and frees me at the same time. Its also given me an immense amount of wonder, depth, creativity, and appreciation for the present moment. The fact is nothing is permanent every form of energy dissolves through time. This breaking apart of and dissolving of form is what we will all have to face time and time again during our existence on this planet. We live in a realm of duality. The pain creates the joy. The loss creates the gain, our unconscious creates our conscious, shadows are created by light. and the emptiness creates the form. Sunyata. When we realize that all things are connected, there really is no separation, this only occurs in our minds,. we move into our hearts, into unity; and transcend time and space. We merge with the source we all came from. My mission as an artist and a bodyworker is to allow the unconscious to become conscious. To shed the light of awareness on the darker spaces within us. All is divine, even the shadows.
