Art helps me carry my basket safely through life
Feedback from Tamara L Smithee-Smith
My mother says I have always drawn. She remembers me drawing detailed trees as a small child. All I know is I have always used art as a way to escape.
I am bipolar and was not diagnosed until I was 40 years old ..I was a police officer who worked the bombing and two awful tornadoes and was injured in the line of duty more than once. During the most awful times I drew.
I dropped my basket as we say in the South except I kicked mine and ran over it with a car. …