A few years ago, I went to a Moth storytelling event, and it triggered a real existential crisis within me. In those hours, listening to the speakers tell their stories, I realized that I didn’t know who I was, and I didn’t feel like I had any stories to tell. I was lost. Masked. Not living my life.

Fast-forward to now. A lot has changed, and I’ve evolved a lot as a person, but it has not gotten any easier for me to tell stories. In fact, it’s gotten harder. Why? I’ll explain by way of explaining why I made this website in the first place.

The backstory is that I am REALLY interested in consciousness these days. How can I further expand my consciousness? What actually is it? Where does it live? How is it related to the universe and our greater sense of intuition? What does plasma (the 4th state of matter) have to do with it? What role does fascia in the body play in all of this? What impact does this lens of consciousness have on our views towards science, medicine, politics, religion, work, education, relationships—essentially all the models we have built our lives around? What is the role of music and dance from a quantum mechanics vibrational perspective? What is the relationship between AI and consciousness? Where does the human end and the machine start? What responsibility do we, as stewards of this technology, need to carry? (Hence the .io in my URL. It’s a cheeky nod to all this fuzziness. I am the robot. The robot is me. And you. And all of us.)

But it’s not like I am desperately seeking these answers. It’s more like I am working on building a better relationship with consciousness itself. Because at the end of the day, that’s all there is. It’s the highest order thing, and my deep sense of purpose—to explore life through the lens of consciousness—permeates literally everything I do.

As I explore these questions, it feels like I am living inside a kaleidoscope. I can see that there are infinite stories I could tell and infinite ways in which I could tell each of those stories. These stories live at all levels of abstraction within the universe. They are all interconnected, with similar and repeating patterns. But they are also discrete in a way. Little vignettes of beauty and brilliance and awesomeness. I’m calling them fractals.

It’s as if, moment by moment, the kaleidoscope turns, and I get these brief windows of focus into these different fractals. At one moment, I’m thinking about the patterns of the mycelial network within us and all around us. The next, I’m building an app that helps people process their feelings. Shortly after that, I’m thinking about the relationship between purpose, vision, strategy and execution in creating exponentially more efficient business processes (“plasma thinking” haha). And the next, I’m thinking about what impact AI and automation and offshoring will have on the future of our society (perhaps it’s not as bad as it sounds). And after that, I’m unpacking complex relationship patterns while drawing intricate patterns on a leaf. I can see myself as a product person, a business owner, an artist, a mom, a healer, a coach, a futurist, a controversial AI troll and more. All these versions of reality are true and valid and deserve to exist, if just for a moment.

As you might imagine, living in this kaleidoscope can be quite disorienting, so I thought this website would allow me to play with and express these little vignettes as I experience them. Why? Because the universe is inexplicably beautiful from my perspective. It’s literally magic. I want to give you a glimpse into this kaleidoscope and maybe give you some tips on how to get there, if you so wish. “Come look! This is so cool!” And what I know for sure, from the art I’ve made over the past few years, is that I often arrive at the answers when I just start making the art. I don’t think about what to draw or make. I just start making it and see what it turns into. So that’s what I’m doing here, but on a slightly larger scale than one-off pieces of art.

So, hello. I am Kelly, and for now, I am a fractal storyteller. I will tell these stories in any way, shape or form that I see fit, as they emerge. They will probably be all over the place. That’s part of the fun of it. And I’ll see where that takes us because I’m sure there’s a pattern in here somewhere.

Thanks for reading. If you’re also obsessed with plasma and/or consciousness, I WANT TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE! And if any of these topics sound like something you want to hear more about, let me know!

XOXO,
Kelly

P.S. The evolution of this blog is already blowing me away. Like where did this fractal idea even come from?? When I made this website, this is not what I thought I would be writing about. But the words just come out and the story emerges. So cool!