Artistic Inspiration: Julie Hernandez (Live Oak)

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Artistic Inspiration” Julie Hernandez (Live Oak) Each person’s journey is unique, we live and experience different things that shape us to who we become. The beauty of interpretation is that we can make what we want out of life. My inspiration arises from my father’s life. A man whose education did not pass the 6th grade level. Who left his home country to have a better life. A person who was homeless at first, now has his own businesses and owns many houses. And although he has reached a point of his life where he can be selfish, is when he opens his heart the widest and extends his arm out to give you a hand. The moment that my father became my inspiration to accomplish and reach for bigger and greater things, is when he took us to his childhood

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