Sabriyah Davis

"What Do You Want To Be?"

“What do you want to be?” Is a question we are asked frequently as children. The response is typically a teacher, a police officer, or a firefighter. These are innocent responses as children but as we grow and experience life and what many feel as a calling, I would call a spark. I can't recollect any time when I was a small child when you would hear anyone respond that they wanted to be a painter, seamstress, or sculptor. Not knowing that it was possible to become those things always kept me confined to a box where I felt my art was trapped dimming the spark from within. My calling to art was something I hid from others for years in order to stray from being looked down upon. Living in a community where higher education came first made me feel that I would be choosing to be the wrong calling.