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White Wall Wednesday: What Speaks to You

White Wall Wednesday: What Speaks to You

​​ Yesterday in my ceramics class I started work on a new sculpture. My studio-mates know I’m weird and creepy, this has been well established. (If you follow my IG stories, you know all about the skull head and the spine woman.) Yesterday someone asked me why I create dark art. It threw me off because I thought it was a joke to them. I answered in my awkward, socially-anxious way, by mumbling something about thinking darkness is interesting. But…

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Letting Go of Labels

Letting Go of Labels

NARRATIVE. STORY. TRUTH & LIES. These words are ringing in my head today. When I was younger, my story went like this: My sister was very good at art. Taking nude charcoal drawing classes when she was barely a teenager, creating pottery, and painting. I watched her excel at this, and silently, I decided I was not good at art. I let myself be “good” at other things – writing, for example, which I had never known to be an…

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