“Art and self-expression were essential pillars in my”
I started doing art when I was really young. I have stacks and stacks, still, of my works from when I was a kid, and they are pretty funny to look back on. My mom calls them "potato people" because that's what they look like. But for me art and just expressing myself through the medium of drawing was still a big part of my childhood and early teens. Art is still a big part of me but not I that tradition medium that I started with.
“Everything I knew about myself reminded me that I was, if not an impostor, a fraud.”
Sometimes I feel so much imposter syndrome when it comes to where I stand in making art, like I know I make good art and people tell me I do but there are instance where I just think "am I really that good?"
“Our activism, like any other part of ourselves, develops into something bigger than a singular experience. Activism is a collective action and an investment in the lives of other people"
This quote made me think of empathy, which is why I think a lot of people are activists. We the injustices that plagues our world and see the people who it effects and have empath and compassion for those who are going through those hardships. It also made me think of the little things that all piled on and made me become someone an activist (well kind of an activist, I'll get there soon)
Untitled (The Embrace), 1975 - David Hammons
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