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I'm a lucky girl.

If you had a year, starting today, to do anything, what would you do?

Then ask yourself, why aren't you doing it right now? Don't give yourself the answer you have rehearsed for cocktail parties. Ask yourself really, why not?

This is what has lead me to this year, my "Bohemian" year. After a migraine took me down for a week two years ago, I began to re-evaluate my life. As a junior at UCLA with two more years of difficult neuroscience courses to complete, the answer to the question I just posed to you was obvious: because I was on the wrong track. Unfortunately this realization was not as easy as reading the next sentence. It took a year and half of talking it out on the phone, over lunch, in hallways of industrial blue carpet, between study sessions, and going to Italy for a summer to convince myself that this was my calling. This I hope was the hard part.

Now, after blaming Los Angeles and it's smog, traffic, and Barbie bimbos for my unhappiness, I'm back in LA to give her a second chance and to figure out how I can turn what I enjoy doing into something I can do everyday. With this blog, I not only hope to keep my friends and family updated on my latest endeavors, but also to learn to articulate my artwork verbally as well as see how my work effects people. While I currently do art for the process: the pushing of paint on a canvas, feeling that 'zone' feeling I can only compare to the mental state I feel ten minutes into a long run, and the intense rush as ideas spill into notebooks; I want my work to connect with people: for my still life's to have a mood, my portraits to look familiar, my design work to have feeling, and for people to see that art is every where.

With this said, I hope you check back, see what I'm up to, and leave a note of your impressions.