Wake Up

I'm beginning to wake up and become more alive, creating and expressing with a place to put all this stuff has given me new vitality! I'm happy and working to be more true to myself. Everytime I put my own immagination on paper I feel closer to myself, I think I'm in there somewhere just dieing to get out! I've put all things Amanda on the back burner for too long. I've been locked away in the facade of perfection far too long, I put on masks to be what I think others want from me and I'm tired of it. I don't think anyone really appreciates getting to know a facade. So who am I? I am alot of things, maybe that's why creating the collages feels so right. I was trapped in trying to paint what other people may recognize as art. My father paints these landscapes that are realistic and "pretty" and he doesn't understand my stuff so I feel like if anyone will like my stuff I have to paint in the lines, if you know what I mean. Well, watch out the real true AMANDA is waking up!