OUR STORY
hello there & welcome!
Hi there lovely human! My name is Trinity Voigt, a twenty-something year old artist, currently living out of New Braunfels, Texas. I’m also a plant mom, lover of thrifting and a recovering perfectionist.
When asked as a kid what we wanted to be when we grew up, my answer was always “artist”. To me, artist meant “creator of many things”. Someone who felt a constant need to create, like I did.
Before that desire could become a goal to pursue, I was quickly urged to “choose a career not a hobby”. Apparently it wasn’t a safe career choice. They told me to focus on school credits and college degrees. To hurry up and pick the ONE thing I would supposedly do for the rest of my life. As long as it wasn’t art.
But no ONE thing stood out to me. (Other than creating for a living) At least not enough to go into thousands of dollars of debt just as my life was beginning. That didn’t sound like the “safe and secure” route to me. Though that’s exactly what the public education system tells us it is. No. I was (and still am) interested in far too many things to limit myself to just one. I contemplated becoming a fashion designer, a firefighter, a counselor, author, graphic designer, photographer, business owner, member of the peace corps, army, marines, you name it. All were equally enticing to me. So, as I’m sure you can guess, I had a hard time during high school and early adulthood.
Somewhere around sophomore year is when I gave up on the artist daydream, after being told how silly it was repeatedly. It wasn’t a realistic goal anymore. So I searched for a “career”. For a while I told counselors/teachers
that I was going to enlist in the army then go to college after four years served. For what I didn’t know, but it was a plan and it got them to stop dragging me into college discussions. Plus I wouldn’t go into debt so soon. I tried to make myself want the things society said I was supposed to want. To follow imagined safety and security.
For a while I did. I chased a plan instead of a passion. I completely shut off the creative side of myself to work jobs I hated and survive high school. I did what they said. I stopped being curious, stopped wondering, stopped dreaming, stopped questioning. I stopped having time for the passions that make me who I am. Slowly I found less and less joy in living.
One day I woke up, suddenly in my twenties, not knowing who I was. I had lived the past 7 years as a burnt-out and detached robot. No longer curious about what I could be, see or do. I realized just how much time I had wasted trying to squeeze into the mold society had placed in front of me. Even now I still deal with the repercussions of repressing that much of myself for so long.
I believe that we all have a purpose/calling that can bring us fulfillment but that sense of fulfillment can be achieved through more than one passion or interest! And that passion won’t always be found on the traditional path. I am and always will be an artist but I will surely be many more things throughout my life and that should be embraced, not discouraged.
Now, I’ve begun to pursue fulfillment instead of society’s definition of success. So I want to share that ongoing journey with others in the wish that someone else might be encouraged to chase their own forgotten passions and live life the way their childhood self dreamed. I hope that my art can serve as a daily reminder to live through that child-like curiosity in the pursuit of true fulfillment.
Thank you so much for stopping by, whether you purchase something or not! I hope to see you soon! Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments down below!