ARTIST STATEMENT

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I am a mother a sister and a Friend,

Such a cliché but true to the end.

I am a counselor, a nurse, a hero but an artist within

My art shows my love for my friends and my family.

My art shows the love of all things which represents me,

My art shows the love of my children which with never fade,

My art shows my love of my heritage, Pure as sugarcane,

Yet soft like cotton and toxic like acid rain.

My art show strength of my ancestors before me,

Because I have so much love for my blackness it bores me.

I have so much pain from my past it scared me.

My art sometimes come out harsh and gruesomely,

Yet I use bright colors within it,

So that you still don’t mind framing it.

I use happy colors because I want to remain hopeful,

That my world will turn out beautiful.

My love of color shows in my everyday life,

Which is why my love for life show up in my creations.

I use my work to promote emotions,

Because I want people to feel what I feel inside me.

I feel like I design my art for my community.

My art includes people mostly,

Because I want other to relates to me.

My love of story-telling comes out in my art.

My art is a story without a doubt.

My art is my story

And my way to get my story out.

So defining my art may be baffling to me;

Yet it’s here for the world see.

What my past, present, and what future could be.