My artist Statement for the Final

Throughout this semester I have gone through many changes in my life. It has been and up and down roller coaster for me. From the beginning of the semester until now I know I have completely changed as a person. Both spiritually and emotionally. When I look at my life today, I believe that it is just starting off. See for me I am ending college, ever since I was a little kid I thought that once you graduated college that you would get married have kids and die. Well now my thinking is that everything I went through from a little kid up until now is like and on ramp preparing for the rest of my life. A lot of my recent thinking is because of the Peru trip and what happened after it back here in the United States. When I first went down there, I was hoping that it would change my life. Little did I know how much it actually would change me as a person? There were many contributing factors that led to my spiritual change down there. Seeing the different types of people in Peru, and how poor they lived. How much they cherished what God gave them, for instance, living of the jungle in order to survive. The fact that they were always surrounded with death, because of the many illnesses that were there. All of these things basically just shocked me into the reality I am looking through now. It was not just the experiences down there that changed me, but what I experienced and had to deal with when I came back. It was a very scary time for me, not knowing if my friends and family would accept me for who I turned into. Plus the reality of going out into the real world did not set well with me either. Overall, it took a few months for me to process this information and I am still doing this today. But through all the heartache that I went through, I would not change anything at all. For I know this, that God is walking besides me guiding me into the future and my spiritual journey. And that is the best feeling of all!