inspiration, creativity, freedom

I am trying to follow up with Lu’s Art Slam, the first assignment is backgrounds.

When I was in university, my parents were having an incredibly difficult time financially, so difficult that they had to declare bankruptcy. My 3 siblings and I had to get used to living without a lot of the little luxuries to which we had become so accustomed, but I think that the experience made up stronger individuals and more emphatic souls.

I never had a job in my life, but when I started university it became a necessity for us all to start earning an income, it was at this time that one of my classmates suggested that I learn the ‘up and coming’ technology, HTML. I remember that I begged my mother to buy a $36 ‘do-it-yourself html’ book, and I had to beg because $36 was a huge deal to us in those days, she did get it for me, and as they say the rest is history!

The background is torn pages from one of my first html books, and it represents not only a huge part of my life today, but also a very difficult time in my past, that thankfully we were able to overcome. The information in the book is outdated and no longer useful, so a little creative recycling is a great way to keep it’s spirit alive.

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