06/27/2023
Let’s play three truths and zero lies! I bet you’ll win…
1) I was born in Poland and lived there until second grade. (Here’s young Angelika’s school photo! Peep that brooch 👑) We lived in southern Poland, in a city called Bielsko-Biała. When my mom and I first arrived in the US, I had to immediately say goodbye to my childhood pet cockatiel, Jacek, at the airport because he didn’t have the right documentation to enter the States 🥴 Jacek was my first pet (he would have free range of our apartment in Poland and used to wake me up every morning by flying onto my bed ❤️) and it was a pretty tear-filled start to this new American chapter of my life 🥲
2) I was one of those kids that knew she wanted to be an artist since I was very young. A couple of years back, I found one of my very first illustrated books which was a story about a flower that grew when a person watered it. It was a riveting tale with absolutely no plot twists. I later graduated to drawing Rugrats characters (and selling those drawings to my grade school friends resulting in ✨my first business✨). Surprising no one, I ended up studying fine art in college (but chose Spanish as my *practical* second degree 🥴). Since graduating, I’ve been on an endless and relentless quest to figure out who I am as an artist and how to build a sustainable practice.
3) I identify as an empath and an HSP 🤗 I was always a super shy and emotional kid (and now adult) who felt things very deeply, and I never understood why. I went on a very deep self-exploration journey (stereotypically, triggered by a tough break-up) a couple of years back when realized that I’m sensitive as hell. In the best way! Practically speaking, this can mean that performance arts often bring me to happy tears, that when I spend time with others, I tend to pick up on their emotions even when they can’t vocalize them, and that I have a very strong connection to animals. It means a lot of other things, too, and realizing these things about myself was pretty neat and incredibly useful in understanding myself.
Did you win 3/3?!
