Briana Richardson: Artist Statement

My artwork helps me to not always think about my stress or depression. I really began to make art when my Mother became sick with cancer and I was forced to miss a lot of school. During the fourteen years that she battled cancer I felt my art helped me to express my feelings and work through some of the pain I felt. Since she passed away my art has become a way for me to stay close to her.

I don’t feel that I have a disability in relationship to my art, but my art helps me work through my feeling about having disabilities. I feel that the hardest part of having a disability is how other people see me as a person with a disability. My art is a way for me to express those feelings.