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Escape
Into the Art
& Find
Yourself
"I know I am in the right place now because my body feels calm.
I have hair where before I had bald spots.
I was engulfed in flames everyday for months. Now I have smooth skin.
I couldn’t taste before. The stomach acid flowing out like lava out of a fire breathing dragon. Now I can taste my Mother’s seasoning every day when I cook for this home.
The sight of plain water used to make me gag. I can drink water again.
I couldn’t go up a flight of stairs. I was so weak and frail. Now I live on the 5th floor with no elevator. I’ve hauled up chairs, desks, large canvases, heavy groceries, bags of clothes.
I am strong. I am alive.”
Into The Blood | Pa Dentro La Sangre
A Doctorate of Philosophy in Archaeology: Courage
Andrilisa Rosanna Read-Iglesias Lopes, Ph.D.
Photography by Alejandro Read-Iglesias Lopes
I am an Archaeologist. I specialize in excavating the Imagination. This all started because I couldn't talk. It felt like the hardest thing in the world, to talk. But to create was easy. Through art, dance, music and games I could always build an imaginary bridge of communication until I found the words.
The more ways of creating I became versed in, the more humans I could connect with and understand, regardless of the words we were raised with. Just because somebody cannot speak, it does not mean they cannot understand.
Creating is not some gift only some are born with. Creating is the key to your restoration and your inner vault of ideas.
You can be everything and anything you dream of being when you learn to use your knowledge creatively and courageously. It's time to excavate your imagination.
Your happily ever afters are just an imaginary bridge away.
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