Ngoma

Rhythm and sound interact relentlessly, engaging the world in a symphonic seduction that I fall captive to everyday of my life. Music penetrates my body, mind, and soul. I am built for creating and so I find my art to be the struggle I experience to visually represent the sounds that surround me everyday. Art that moves me has texture, depth, rhythm, and the ability to tell a subjective story. I never tell my audience what my songs mean to me, and so it is with my art as well. I am fascinated by the universal ability of humans to connect through the arts and the impact that the realization of this ability has on the individual and groups alike. I choose this body of work to represent the recent experiences I have had with what I identify within myself as the soul. As five unrehearsed musicians collaborate in harmony and synchronized rhythm, so I too attempt to bring together a disheveled mind on a piece of canvas, wood, or paper. Through my art I yearn for only a deeper realization and comprehension of why I am here and what I was built for. As of yet all I truly know is that I am built for creation.

Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.

—N’tima (via barbieandken)

(Source: mariaarroyo, via the-spinning-stairs)