Personal life

Through this trajectory of learning to be … while making and doing… I have always been more attached to the effort of trying to meet the needs of the artist as a person. I have learned that the art can survive only as long as the artist does… and my life in art and design began by serving those vulnerable creative communities who were tenacious enough to withstand the colonial legacy of destruction followed by our own apathy and indifference towards homegrown talent. I took a decision NOT to…

In my life there will always be obstacles; it is just a matter of when, how life altering they are, and the attitude I respond with. I faced my biggest obstacle, so far, the fall of my junior year. I tore my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), and had to receive reconstruction surgery in October of 2016. During my therapy sessions following my surgery, when my therapist would give me a set of ten exercises to do ,and I would do fifteen. Each session wore me out to the point where my legs would be…

Being from the small town of Cheraw, South Carolina has given me many opportunities to interact with those in the community. Growing up around many of these individuals resulted in developing different relations. Relations in terms of natural association with others. As a result of developing relations with different individuals in my hometown, I began to notice the socioeconomic challenges among them. These challenges including, but not limited to: financial crisis, family issues, and/or…

You can never be too sure how fast your life can change. In one split second it could be lost. You can't reverse what happened. You can't change how it happened. You can only regret not preventing it when you're at fault. Her name is Keira. Everyone is surrounding her, putting her breathing tubes on right, and making sure her pulse is normal. She's beautiful, 15 years old, her dark brown hair, is a curly mess under and over her head. When the doctors leave, I look at her fondly as if I knew…

Exposure to most of the traumatic life experiences that have whittled away at some of my peers has, thankfully, evaded me; however, even subtle experiences can revolutionize a previously held belief. I have learned to not ever take an experience for granted and learn from each of my mistakes. Each and every person only has one life to live on earth; why waste something so precious by making the same mistakes? As a child I was forced to grow up rapidly. Responsibility, maturity, discipline, and…

boring in my hut, because there is nothing for a mayan teenager to do after his teachings. So I recently started reading my grand fathers journal entries. There were a few mistakes, but I think he did alright. He had a interesting story about his mayan life as a teenager. After a few minutes more of reading I went downstairs and I saw tortillas, Tamales, and hot atole. I asked my parents “why are we having Tamales and Tortillas.” They replied by saying “we feel today is going to be…

Sometimes I wonder what people are afraid of. When I talk about it with my friends I always get plain answers like: "spiders, dogs or my mother". It is a bit different when I think about my own fears. The last couple of months I think I am afraid of probably anything. The simplest thing that scares me is the ocean. Not the water itself but the fear of the unknown beneath me. Having nothing to hold on to, or to jump on if something would happen, or the fear of being pulled down. I always think…

august, the months of fireflies and bikinis. I live my summer life as a free spirit on lake Winnipesaukee NH. I wake up at 5 am, watch the sunrise, drink green tea, venture through the mountains of New Hampshire, dance in the rain, and spend days painting at the end of the dock. I swim in the lake with my siblings until our shoulders burn and eat melting ice cream cones until our stomachs hurt, loving every minute. My North Carolina life is a bit more hectic. With clubs, APs, and sports and the…

Paths. We are all held captive by these invisible undertakings. Some paths we choose, others are chosen for us. It is how we react to the unalterable that decides our final path. I am no stranger to paths, as I embark on them each and every day with my wearer. He has taken me on breath-taking adventures and we have had our fair share of stirring moments. We have been through rough times in sports, starting with basketball in the first grade, all the way up to sophomore year. Tears have trickled…

Drowning i should have known I should have been alerted… I should have known. I regret it and I am reminded of the mistakes I have made every second of my “life”. My life is over and only at 13 years old, I am dead, done, fried. Now all I have to do is wait and sit, all day. Today was just a normal day where you miss the bus because I hit snooze about five times, and then hope that time will come to a halt in order for the idea of getting out of bed to be an illusion. So, I did exactly…