What Makes You You? Each answer acts as an inspiration for me to create a unique digital image.

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number 911
What makes me, me is that I am a first generation child of immigrant parents. They emigrated from southern Italy, Calabria. I grew up in Brooklyn, born, raised and lived most of my life there, also being a Brooklynite helped shape me, I grew up listening to NYC radio and early on I pursued being a disk jockey for some time in my early twenties. Musically I felt a sort of kinship and connection with other disc jockeys with whom I readily identified.
But with visual art that was more of a personal journey which required more intrspection and effort to break that mold of it being more cathartic and internal. While in college at C.U.N.Y. I took many fine arts courses focusing in painting and sculpture and also at the art students league of new york.
inspired by Sandro Nigrelli     

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number 910
I make drawings and paintings that fall somewhere between organic abstraction and figuration. Now I want to start working more with straight lines using the same technique. I think my work speaks to the balance between the organic, the structure, the space, the body. I’m still deciphering what moves me to paint what I do, but somehow, there’s always something alive and artificial in the background, and their relationships in space. Balance and imbalance. Something like that… hehe
inspired by Maximiliano Celentano

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number 906
What makes me ‘me’ includes the understanding that life is fluid and my own journey may not always align perfectly with my initial visions. I recognize that it’s okay if the picture I paint evolves, if the story takes unexpected turns, and if the person I become differs from my earlier aspirations. This acceptance of uncertainty and the willingness to adapt are integral to who I am.
“ It is fine to be the me I become “.
inspired by oomnipiece

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number 903
To answer your question, what makes me, me is: my past experiences of grief butting up against my innate qualities of curiosity and creativity, peppered with a little restlessness and compelled by a need to be agentic and authentic. Mush all of that together and what you get left over is me.
inspired by Meredith Lewis

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number 900
Oh my. Unsure what makes me,  me. The older I get the more mysterious it is. God might answer in the final analysis but in between birth and death there is biology, gender, inherited traits, history geography environment ecology, culture religion etc etc. my environment and culture bias me to see through a religious/spiritual lens nowadays including soul.
inspired by Benet Haughton 

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number 894
I have absolutely no idea how to answer, but I’ll try… I just drift around observing what’s around me and sometimes find joy or opportunity or interesting people by chance and get drawn in. That’s more ‘what I do’ than ‘who I am’, but maybe I am what I do…
inspired by Caryl Jones

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number 893

I was born with 3 gifts: a very good body that still serves me beautifully at age 85; I was born with conscious contact with a Higher Power; I knew from my earliest memories – before I went to school, that I was/am an artist. But when I was a pre-schooler, I also thought I was/am a priest. My Irish Catholic family would correct me, saying: “Oh, don’t you mean a ‘nun’? I would insist: ‘NO! A priest! I AM an artist, and I AM in constant contact either with higher powers, and I am a PhD Social Psychologist! It was not until I was doing research on cave paintings and shamanism did I realize that I was born to both the traditions of shamanism and the traditions of women warriors while writing my dissertation in Japan. I was given those gifts at birth because the rest of my life was going to be terribly hard and painful.

inspired by Rosemary Wright 

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number 892
Hard to state this as always been one of Ten children, am a twin who share birthday with sister and older brother, became girlfriend, mother, wife and grandmother. Work as special needs teaching assistant and try to free lance as mixed media artist. I volunteer for numerous things, been doing creative kindness over 12 years, community focused. Along the way a new me has emerged but still lacks that confidence in performance art of hidden but talented singer and artist.
inspired by Ruth Daley

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number 885
Ego centrically  attached to this ‘Duality’  defined body and story  Moich ( Martin) Abrahams.
Philosophically, intuitively, logically the ‘Non Dual’ imperative is I am Love, there is nothing else, Every thing else, including all attempts to define What I am or Who I am is nonsense.
PS ‘Love’ used here is an adjective to point at an assumed characteristic of that Unicity , the UNDIVIDED Oneness,  the All that there is, which could be said to ‘take care of itself’,  adopted and extrapolated from the human term for the highest value of ‘Taking Care’ within eg  a human family,  to be a descriptor,  or name even, of that One, that ‘I Am’ , yet used here,  in a way impossible  to grasp by a human mind. Not simply love as understood in human terms. Yet, I Am Love, I Am That.
inspired by Martin Moich Abraham

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number 883
I started creating art for myself when I was sixty three and got divorced after a very long marriage. My first collection was The Art of Divorce, capturing not the stories but the emotional journey. I had my first solo exhibit within 6 months and it’s been a remarkable journey.  I was a TV Producer in the Broadcast and cable businesses.
Top to bottom 
RISING FROM THE ASHES 
TRUTH
SHATTERED
inspired by Carol J Cohn