In 2008,
I applied as a scholarship student to Penland School of Crafts during one of
the darkest hours of my life. I
received the blessing of a Lucy Morgan Scholarship, and experienced the
beginning of a transformation in my art and in my life. Penland became the light to illuminate
my way out of the pain of humiliation, rejection, being diminished and stripped
of dignity in a toxic learning environment. It was a struggle to get to Penland that summer. I felt as if I was drowning in an ocean
of pain, with a weighted rope around my ankle pulling me down into the
melancholy blues. The transforming
light of Penland taught me that I doubted my own strength. I untangled the rope of self-doubt,
anger and fear around my ankle, swam up to the light of day and exhaled. I am helpless and broken and with each
and every breath “I Look 2 You”! .... the journey continues ...
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