A few years back I lost the use of both my hands to Psoriasis now that I have gotten my life back I can’t stop painting. Art healed me.
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Acrylic Folk Art with Vibrant colors and moral triggers to help you see the world from a new perspective. Paper Mache has recently brought me traces of my roots and I can mold and create pieces that just simply come together on their own. It’s an amazing feeling to be able to use my hands with such ease when I couldn’t even manage to feed myself. God rescued me when no one believed in me. I want to be a beacon of light in a dark scary world. Stand on your convictions and live free.
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration in small daily moments. Real life and real emotions. Art has saved my life and I feel like the world needs it at the moment we are suffering with emotions left unsaid. My Psoriasis was me holding back all the pain and hurt the world around me had caused. When I start painting all the doubt drifts away. I can be me unapologetically me.
What would you do with $25,000?I want to start my own art studio so I can teach people how to feel again. Through creativity and hope I want to help our teens stop hurting themselves because the world makes them feel like they are not enough. “Come as you are”. Here we are all safe, here there is no judgement, here you can be free.
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