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The self-expression that comes from creating art is a powerful thing. Over the past 15 years, I have experienced this on my own personal journey through art. I have found that art allows me to express myself and at the same time save or help others around me. Naturally, I needed art like oxygen! Over the years in my pursuit, I have slept on the couches of friends and the floors of government housing, sacrificing comfort and security in search of new discoveries in life and of self. I managed to overcome many things and create a career and have developed relations with supportive patrons who believe in me and recognize my talent. For this I am thankful.

Being someone who is learning-different can be highly frustrating when I realize that my brain can sometimes struggle to convey to other people what it is I am thinking. Trapped in my mind, the only way I can communicate sometimes is through using colors, shapes, forms, fluid movement, and lines to design something that captures my message, beliefs, heart, pain, joy, hope, confusion, and abstract ways of thinking that dissect everyday life. I feel I am developing a sense of my own beautiful language through creativity in order to express myself and feel a connection that ultimately bridges a gap in human connection and captivates an audience. This allows me to articulate and feel free.

I am not one to confine myself to one medium and love to explore art through sculpture, painting, and photography—all of which have been pivotal in giving me a voice that words could not. I tend to create works of art by immersing myself in a state of flow. Using expressive gestures through fluid movement and precise pigment placement, a sense for shape, color, and balance to channel empathy, and communicate my own emotional vulnerabilities.