As many of you know, I often hear songs in my mind. For the past few months now, Michael Jackson has been coming in and out with a message of change. About a month ago, after a long break from newsletters and actively promoting my work, the time finally came to redo my website and move forward in the direction I have been heading for quite some time now. What direction is that you may ask?
I guess you could say it started back in 2007 when I got hungry for a slice of pizza...
I have always loved my birth name and thought that as an artist and a professional, I wanted to keep it. Proud of my italian heritage, my last name means strong, or loud. With B as my middle initial, whenever I saw my name spelled out, I would think, "Carla Be Strong"...kind of a personal mantra that nobody else needed to know about...
One day while working in my studio in Portland I decided to take a break and go grab a slice down the street. While there, my wallet was stolen. That lead to me officially adding my husband's name to my last name..I was pregnant with my first child and I figured it would be harder for someone to steal my identity if my social security number was attached to a different name (Yes, I stupidly had my Social Security Card in my wallet) I also thought it would be a good idea if everyone in my family carried Orr in their name, for unity. I decided I would have a two name last name, Forte Orr. I kept using Carla B. Forte for art and created my professional website.
After my daughter was born, a lot more changed than just my name.
As I settled into motherhood I also experienced what I like to call a "mommy identity crisis". That crisis carried me further down the path I was meant to walk as a female, artist, partner, mother, and energy healer.
After I became pregnant with my second child, my family's path lead me back to my birth state of Massachussetts where I now live. Last November I was signing a lot of papers with my initials on them. We sold our house in Portland and to make it legal I had to sign CBF on those papers. At the same time we purchased a home in Beverly, where I needed to sign CFO.
Since moving into our new home at the end of last year, I have continued to integrate and feel strength in my being...realizing that as I move forward in the work I offer the outside world, my personal world is often interwoven, informing, and guiding me along. I cannot be separate people, and I cannot be separate from my business.
Therefore, as I continue to draw things out in the realms of art and energy, I am focusing my attention on female creativity and motherhood, with offerings to women and mothers. I now go by one name, Carla Orr.
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I am so excited to be at this juncture. I am looking forward to the many changes that we can all take together by exploring the amazing power that art has to connect ourselves to...ourselves!
With Blessings,
Carla
