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March 14th, 2015 - 09:26 AM
Creating art had been lost on me, for various reasons, for over a decade; so much so that when a friend visited me in Chicago in early 2007 bearing the gift of art supplies, I genuinely had no clue what to do with them. While I was grateful for his generosity, I was baffled by his reasoning for buying them because (as I told myself) I was not an artist. "I'll never use these," I distinctly remember thinking to myself.
In the months that followed, as I delved deeper into therapy and found myself in uncomfortable places (dealing with monumental family and relationship issues), I started turning to the art supplies. I quickly found that tapping into my creativity soothed my soul, and sometimes it offered a new perspective on the issues at hand. I started out making simple greeting cards for friends. For these, I mostly used rubber stamps and various types of paper. From there, I dabbled with charcoal and pastels. Over time, my experiments became more complex, but they were nothing more than experiments.
Almost a year and a half after my friend reignited my artistic senses, the 7-year relationship that I was in came to an end in all its fiery glory. We had three painfully long weeks of living together until I moved back to Buffalo, and as a distraction, I once again turned to the trusty art supplies for comfort...
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