What Makes You You? Each answer acts as an inspiration for me to create a unique digital image.

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number 926 
These days I’m thinking that what makes me/me is regardless of who thinks it’s True or untrue (and no matter who sneaks a quick peek or looksee), there’s still no one who’s You’er or You’er than You, and still no one who’s me’er or me’er than me.
inspired  by Mike Kulka

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number 922
Being an artist is clearly a significant part of my identity. I’m my obsessions and my contradictions – the things I return to again and again in my work because I haven’t figured them out yet in my life. I’m defined by my values, by what I choose to pay attention to and what I ignore. 
PS I think I am still a child at heart.  
inspired by  Alec Shepley 

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number 917
Hmm… what makes me/me… I’ve spent over 8 years in the U.S. when I was teens. I got in a car accident and lost my sight in my right eye, but I was thankful to be alive. I came back to Japan and have been living here since then. Knowing other cultures influenced my thoughts and creativity. I started to learn Blender in 2021. My dream is to publish a photo book with my Snailoids
inspired by Curry Samuari

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number 911
What makes me, me is that I am a first generation child of immigrant parents. They emigrated from southern Italy, Calabria. I grew up in Brooklyn, born, raised and lived most of my life there, also being a Brooklynite helped shape me, I grew up listening to NYC radio and early on I pursued being a disk jockey for some time in my early twenties. Musically I felt a sort of kinship and connection with other disc jockeys with whom I readily identified.
But with visual art that was more of a personal journey which required more intrspection and effort to break that mold of it being more cathartic and internal. While in college at C.U.N.Y. I took many fine arts courses focusing in painting and sculpture and also at the art students league of new york.
inspired by Sandro Nigrelli     

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number 910
I make drawings and paintings that fall somewhere between organic abstraction and figuration. Now I want to start working more with straight lines using the same technique. I think my work speaks to the balance between the organic, the structure, the space, the body. I’m still deciphering what moves me to paint what I do, but somehow, there’s always something alive and artificial in the background, and their relationships in space. Balance and imbalance. Something like that… hehe
inspired by Maximiliano Celentano

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number 906
What makes me ‘me’ includes the understanding that life is fluid and my own journey may not always align perfectly with my initial visions. I recognize that it’s okay if the picture I paint evolves, if the story takes unexpected turns, and if the person I become differs from my earlier aspirations. This acceptance of uncertainty and the willingness to adapt are integral to who I am.
“ It is fine to be the me I become “.
inspired by oomnipiece

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number 903
To answer your question, what makes me, me is: my past experiences of grief butting up against my innate qualities of curiosity and creativity, peppered with a little restlessness and compelled by a need to be agentic and authentic. Mush all of that together and what you get left over is me.
inspired by Meredith Lewis