Why do you do what you do?

Why do you do what you do?

I make art to breathe. If I don’t take a little time each day to paint a bit I get grumpy. Some say it’s an outlet, or a form of meditation, I would call it a necessity. I’ve been making art since I could hold a crayon. It’s the only place where I feel like I can really explore being myself, tackling the most interesting thought that comes to me. I don’t feel like I have to conform to anyone or anything, I can paint whatever I feel like, to me, that is freedom. I had a rather brief childhood that was quickly interrupted with a firm regiment of endless piles of math homework, piano practice, swimming laps and copying out the dictionary, so when that was all done and over with for the day, all I wanted to do was art. Art was the one thing that was never enforced in my childhood and for some reason, maybe out of unconscious rebellion, I went really crazy with it. In short, I did not end up an eye doctor like my parents had hoped, but ended up a painter with bad eyesight 😔🤓 Bless every beautiful eye doctor in this would. How has your childhood/upbringing made you an artist or not one? Why do you make art?