Natalie Slaba

slaba.natalie@gmail.com

​Dear reader,

 

Ever since I could remember I have leaned on arts. As a child I prefered to be alone and draw, rather than play with the others. I have moved many homes at young age; from Prague to Minesota, back to Prague, then Ireland, then Canada and in 2013-2014 I did an exchange to Lille, France. 

I love foreign cultures, but more than anything I have done the exchange to prove to my parents and myself that I am in control and I am not going to drag myself behind them. 

In France I have not only found my voice, but discovered art through a different point of view. There, I have been immersed in expositions, art galleries, shows and had met very inspirational people.  

Since I have moved so often (in sixth grade I have already been to six different schools), I always lacked a place to call home and my worlds have been seperated by the oceans and sovereign boarders. Art was the one thing that connected- and connects- my worlds together. It gave me comfort and actual support, because when I used it I knew I was the same person as I was a million miles in a different dirrection. 

Though sometimes I feel like my insanity has ignited due to art, I definately wouldn't be a whole lunatic without it...

 

Cheers to art.  

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PS. I invent and disslike copying. I use art for many things and one of them is showing and expressing whatever is in my head, not cloning somebody else's brain. 

 

 

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