How I Met Max

This is the story of how I came to understand and accept myself as an artist after years of restricting myself. I was convinced I wasn't talented, capable, or dedicated enough to produce the things I was dreaming up in my head. The Summer of 2025, at the age of 21 and going into my senior year of college, I had been the one constructing those roadblocks in my own head. Since then, it is all I've been able to think about.

 

Not only can I create art, but I am an artist.

Here is how I d.