Name: How drawing can set you free | Shantell Martin
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T22:37:07.000Z
Duration: 7 min 48 s
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I'm at home, as I'm sure many of you are, too.

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can deeply impact our sense of identity and purpose.

There's a sense of distance now unlike ever before.

that you could find a way from your heart to your hand

and that through this practice and embracing this cause,

I could help you to recalibrate your mind

so that you could explore this new reality with joy,

As a kid growing up in a council estate in Southeast London,

and all of my siblings look very English:

and in many ways, start to think differently

How do you find your way out of a dark, racist, homophobic

And I've learned very well how to follow it.

And the first thing I did is I followed this line,

that was only telling me what I couldn't do.

However, I soon realized there wasn't a place for me in London,

because whether you wish to believe it or not,

England is still a country that is rooted and functions within

And as a young, black, gay female artist from a working-class family,

where I didn't experience people asking me where I was really from.

I was immersed in a culture that honors both making and craft,

where people perfect their craft over generations.

It's a culture that masters both time and space,

so that artists can truly create with freedom.

And what I discovered was a place I wasn't angry with.

I had to bravely allow myself to create from a different place.

and the solutions to problems I never knew existed.

It's like the world with all its positive and negative spaces

After five years of living in Japan and focusing on my craft,

because that's what you do as an artist, right?

You move to the greatest city in the world

to make you feel completely and utterly invisible.

This is when I began to truly ask myself,

I would wake up in the morning, and before I began my day,

the act of giving myself permission to let go

of all thoughts, all fears, insecurities --

of allowing myself to be completely me --

that became my way of experiencing freedom.

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How drawing can set you free | Shantell Martin

incredible

engage

practice

embrace