RACHEL SMITH

I want to show everyone how even mindless thoughts are the building blocks of creation and we are so much more than a consumer or a product.

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Voting for the Top 10 ends Thursday the 28th of May at 7PM PDT

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What is your favorite type of art to create?

I like to draw with a pen or pencil on paper because I am just moving light and dark around and it helps me uncover a truth. Just like light obliterates shadows and exposes a fear that's out of proportion from just one perspective. I can solve life's major problems by invoking an emotion from people that you don't even understand yourself. its proof we have a spirit, a soul and there is another world we choose to ignore. I would be considered an illustrator and ive begun to write the storybook.

Where do you find inspiration?

Faerie tales, music, my brain, magic, mysterious, spooky ghost stories and mythology. I love the things that are considered dark but can give so much joy. I want to break stereotypes and lazy thinking but not so outside of reality that it doesn't strike a cord. I'm usually doodling and inspired by something I see in my scribbling and go with it, monsters gardens and landscapes have verses of poetry. I am currently working on parables and words of wisdom from meditating talking with God.

What would you do with $25,000?

I recently found out I have a brain tumor and a neurological condition that basically had me paralyzed temporarily. I spent 2 years where I thought I would never draw again. Art was the therapy I needed to pull myself out of a depression. Even though my hands tremor I found I can still move shadows and color, I am unstoppable, I am powerful. I started Madame Oddly's Emporium of Curiosities, launching soon, an e business and with the prize money I don't have to stress and just spread my blessings

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