I wrote my name in the middle of a piece-of-paper. Drew a circle around it with ten radial lines off the circle. I had to put ten ideas of who I am and what is important to me on those ten radial lines. I felt the strongest emotion on one radial line—people (interestingly, not artist). I then spent a couple of months trying to figure out how "people" could lead me to the other nine radial lines. I have never regretted that process nor those months. It has sustained me for the past 25 years and I finally stopped spinning my wheels and could drive forward.
Ida Kotyuk©
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