where it began

I had been in art school for three years, weaving, paper making, sculpture in clay, metal and fibers and loving it all but not really know where I was heading  or what I was trying to say. Then I took African art history and it all began to make sense. I was seeing work that had the same aesthetics as me, that used color, texture and pattern. It spoke to the gods, to the earth to the basic wonderment of life. 

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