Every day you are bombarded by so many different things. When you sit down to process everything, it can become interesting visually. You can incorporate a lot of those things that you internalize.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and live.

When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

There are multiple things entering in your mind.