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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Painting completed my life.

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.