the parts of you that you hide are the parts people need to see 🦋 we spend so much time curating our "artist persona" that we forget the messy, weird, painful parts are what make the best pieces of art & people will connect to the most. here's mine: - growing up in predominantly white catholic schools taught me to perform normalcy - to laugh at jokes that hurt, to stay quiet when i had questions, to make myself smaller so they'd feel comfortable - i've spent so much energy trying to be understood that sometimes disappearing feels easier than translating myself to people who don't speak my language - i come from a family of immigrants and being first gen means i'm too american for my family and too foreign for everyone else - i exist in this painful in-between that shaped everything i create - my sensitivity made me feel broken until i realized it was my gift - i still sometimes wonder if i'm "too much" your turn. drop ONE thing about yourself that you usually hide. the thing you think makes you "too sensitive" or "too weird" or "too broken" to be a real artist. because i promise - that's the thing that makes your art healing. comment below 👇 let's normalize the messy human parts🫀