My Art Helped Me Liberate My True Identity

Maria Chance
CRY Magazine
Published in
4 min readFeb 25, 2020

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Alexa Fotos (Pixabay)

Which came first? The toxic household or the creative child trying to escape? I can’t help but always wonder whether it was my dreamer personality that infuriated my father, or whether my creativity stemmed from needing an outlet, a world into which I could run off to in order to cope with the suffocating reality of my childhood.

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Maria Chance
CRY Magazine

Fiction Editor @ The Intuitive Desk (theintuitivedesk.com)| Book Reviews Editor @ Knocking Books | Novelist in the works