The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation with Jerry Wennstrom

At a time when people are experiencing the loss of everything they most identified with, Jerry's experience living creatively in "the void" offers inspiration , hope and unimagined new possibilities. In 1979, Jerry Wennstrom, a rising star in the New York art world, intentionally destroyed his paintings and gave away his possessions and money. He spent well over the next decade wandering, seeking, and listening, relying only on his own intuition and an unconditional trust in the Universe to provide for him. In consciously emptying himself of his identity, Jerry was led on an extraordinary spiritual journey and ultimately, a return to creating art. In his book, The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation, Jerry tells the story of his metaphorical death and rebirth as an artist and as a man. The Inspired Heart is a self-portrait of the life of a man guided and armed only with an unwavering faith in the creative spirit to sustain him. In sharing the tale of his remarkable survival and his surrender to life experience, Jerry writes "it is important to bring the mystery of this survival back to the tribe as story." Ralph White - NY Open