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Reflections on My Art in College
💛🫶🏾 HEY BEAUTIFUL SOULSSS 😍 🤩
I wanted to share with you guys my days in college AND indulge in my love for art and what it taught me about myself
In college I had an assignment where we had to take three completely different images and blend them into one piece.
I picked the Grand Canyon or Sedona can't remember , a tiger from the zoo, and a cat in an alley… three things that had absolutely nothing to do with each other and I made them work together lol.
At the time
I wasn’t thinking about style.
I wasn’t thinking about labels.
I wasn’t trying to “be” anything.
I was just creating from instinct, trusting my imagination, trusting my eye, and letting the images come together however they wanted to.
Then critique day came.
One of my classmates looked at my piece and said:
“You remind me of a surrealist artist.”
I smiled with confusion on my face and told him,
“I have no clue what that even is,”
and he laughed and said he really liked it and was blown away that I even thought to combine those three things into one image.
he then told me,
“Go look into surrealism.”
So I went home and did exactly that.
And suddenly everything made sense.
The way I mix worlds.
The way I blend realities.
The way my imagination naturally pulls things together that don’t “belong."
That moment taught me:
✨️ Your style finds you, Your gift will reveal itself even when you’re not looking for it.
✨️Instinct is guidance, the things you do naturally are usually the things you’re meant to lean into.
✨️ People reflect your truth to YOU, Sometimes someone else names your greatness before you’re ready to claim it.
I hit another turning point, its figure drawing now and I'm a sophomore.
If you’ve ever taken a figure‑drawing class, you know it’s different.
It forces you to slow down.
To really see.
To pay attention to every curve, every shadow, every shift in weight.
This was one of the first times I drew the human body from life. A nude woman. the back, the muscles, the posture.
And when I finished, I had this moment like:
“Wow… I’m actually leveling up.”
Not perfect.
Not finished.
But still growing in It
That experience taught me:
✨️ Growth can be visible, You can literally see your evolution when you push yourself.
✨️ Mastery takes presence and patience ,You can’t rush real skill. You have to be present for it.
✨️ Confidence builds slowly, Every new level shows up in small breakthroughs.
✨️ Becoming is a process, You grow into your identity one piece at a time.
These two pieces : the surrealism and the figure drawing, remind me of something powerful:
Every step of my journey has been shaping me into the artist at life that I’m becoming.
What would you say you have subconsciously grown into? And what are you intentionally growing into? Are they different paths, are they aligned?
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