Studio Spaces: Places For Creativity & Growth

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Early on in my life, I identified as an artist. I remember working on craft projects in various classrooms growing up. In Girl Scouts, I would work on creative projects with my troop. In high school, I worked on learning art concepts, drawing and pottery. In my teens and early twenties, I got interested in modeling, studied it for a little bit and explored it with various poses. In my twenties, I graduated into making the world around me a constant place for new perspectives with using photography and capturing the most unique and interesting shots. I had also explored the art of aerial dance and pole dance at a couple of different studios with a couple of different teachers. This allowed me to explore myself as an evolving work of progression through dance in using different apparatuses.

With everything that I worked on whether it was a drawing or a dance routine, I wanted to execute what was in my mind and capture it perfectly. My desire was to inspire, but my execution most of the times was flawed. It caused such emotional turmoil and stirred up anger because of the fact that I couldn’t perfectly execute what I set out to do.

In high school, there was an adult that started criticizing me and the work that I was doing for a class. The assignment was not something that I designed. She talked about how it looked like it was for…