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11x16 oil pastel on stretched canvas

It's not easy trying to discover who you are and let that inner person shine free. It is even more difficult to do that in a world that constantly tries to tell us what it wants us to be, instead of who we really are. When your flesh and blood tear your identity from you growing up it makes it even that much harder to find your core and let it shine.

Here is where I found myself the other day. I put on some music from my past, music I grew up with. This is a big deal for me. For most of my life I have been reaching to find me and just let me be me. Growing up in a dysfunctional and abusive home made this even harder as it was trying to assimilate and use me instead of celebrate me and let me shine.

So what I did was...(go here to find out!)



