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“What I weigh” I weigh the storm I weigh a thousand stories long. I weigh my mother’s fortitude and my father’s eyes I weigh the way they look at me with pride I weigh strength and fearless and the warrior in me. I weigh all the pain and trauma that made me see That I have more galaxies inside me than tragedies. We all weigh joys and darkness and goodness and sin You see, we are infinite within this skin we are in. So when they ask you what you weigh You don’t need to look down at any scale. Instead, simply tell them the truth, Tell them how you Weigh whole universes And storms and scars and stories too. -Nikita Gill- This poem rings true for me, not because of physical weight,   but because of the weight we sometimes carry on our shoulders. A weight placed on us by the people around us, or by ourselves. This weight, I believe can affect us greatly. It can sometimes hinder our progress and thwart our plans, hopes and dreams. We want...

What is “Stardust” To me, this piece is an accumulation of all my skills at the time painting. It is a reminder that I hold universes and galaxies in me and that I am capable of creating beautiful works of art. If you watched my video you would know that I painted “Stardust” in a time where I was struggling as an artist- struggling to accept my skills and talents. Essentially I didn’t feel like I was good enough. Now, I think that while I am not where I want to be, I am where I need to be and I see myself growing more than I ever had before.     To create “Stardust” I had to pull on a variety of resources, i.e. skills that I had acquired from previous art exploration studies. I started out first with a really rough sketch- I mean it was really rough. I don’t put too much emphasis on how I draw my sketches, as long as I get the general idea as to where things will be positioned in the piece. Also since I am partly blind (okay that was an exaggeration), but I have...