"With every art work I make, I start with my own story, I start with my own experience, but at the end of the day, it's part of my healing journey..." - Abiona Esther Ojo

Meet Esther. Vienna based, award winning visual artist and photographer whose work is based on identity and representation. Get inspired by our conversation about her artistic process and the beauty of expressing the verbally inexpressible through visual art.

In this episode we chat about

• How community affects artistic process
• The artistic process: from imagination to visual creation
• Processing emotion, grief, and life change through art creation
• Documenting Black hair styles, hair care, and policy through visual art
• Diversity into the Arts spaces in Europe (Austria)

To see her art work, simply Google! Abiona Esther Ojo.

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