post-it-day3.jpg Painting by Cynthia Korzekwa

My name is cynthia korzekwa. I was born in Texas. My childhood was greatly influenced by our housekeeper. Her name was Fela. She was from Piedras Negras. I grew up speaking Spanish, eating bean tacos and listening to rancheras. Almost a Mexican. The first drawings I remember doing were done in my mother's books. I did a series of scribbles in Webster's dictionary. My mother wasn't impressed. I think I got into trouble. But I kept drawing anyway. That is until I went to Catholic school. There they had rules about everything. Even about drawing. Stuff like: don't draw to the margin of the page, don't go out of the lines, don't put pink next to red. All those rules made drawing a stress. Then I grew up and realized that those rules weren't for me. They were for somebody else.....Some people were born to be foreigners. I'm one of them. I can't be homogenized.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1954
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• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists