I believe each one of us is born CREATIVE. That means we each have a garden filled with seeds of #creativity that lives inside of us.
My garden of creative seeds has always lived in my spirit, heart, mind, and body.
My #curiosity lives in my eyes. They love to observe intensely. Check out my eyes in my childhood photos featured in the collage.
As a child, my mother Theresa watered and nurtured my creative seeds when she taught my three brothers and I about the power of our imagination, curiosity, and voice. Mommy constantly encouraged and reminded us to use our #imagination and be curious. Both my parents made sure we had time and access to resources and experiences that helped us express ourselves throughout our childhood. They and our grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and family friends cheered us on.
Those early experiences laid the foundation for my adult life as a curious creative which began during my first Saturn Return (astrology lovers know what this means) at 27 in 1992.
Today’s digital collage honors the beginning of my life as a #curious #creative. It is entitled “A Curious Creative Is Born: Her First Four Years.”
The collage’s background is taken from one of my 2007 paintings I made to illustrate my love for the ocean and summer weekends spent at my parents’ beach house in Oyster Harbor, a small beach community that was incorporated by a majority of African American homeowners in Annapolis, Maryland during the 1950s.
I added photos of my first four years on the planet and several copies of my finger painting that I made when I was three years old.
Ananda Leeke 