My mother would tell me that I always had a propensity to travel, to wonder, and to explore. This tendency coupled with the fascination with my gift of artistic expression has led me to where I am now. But what started out as fascination has transformed into an ever growing passion for the need to express this gift. As a child, I was always the one who crayoned outside of the lines, always the one who painted the trees red and the sky yellow (much to the displeasure and discontentment of my art teachers throughout school). As a college bound high school student, I...more