“I feel like art is an amazing form of expression. Art is something very important to me. I can remember doing art since I was a little girl. I loved to paint and painting was one of my favorite things. I remember the first thing that I painted. I think it was a Van Gogh, like, copycat. It was blue flowers but I think I did them purple because purple was my favorite color and I had to have everything purple. And, after I finished it I looked back and I was so proud of what I had done and I was like, “This is it!”, and that’s when art became a part of my life.”