T. Angelique offers her talents in the community. Her first mural was painted on the library wall at her high school. She has completed five very large murals within the Public School System and as well as one for a local Christian School. In 2012 she worked with several local teens to design and paint a 20' x 60' outdoor community mural. Her purpose in doing this was to teach teens to give back to society and create something beautiful for a local Drug Rehabilitation Home. She has also obtained a Chaplaincy Degree at Duke University Hospital, an Associate of Divinity degree from Southeastern Seminary and nonprofit status for Hosanna Covenant Ministries -"Art for Transforming."
After opening her own home to three wayward teens ( who were not her own) and successfully seeing them recover from drug addiction,cutting, and self destructive attitudes her wildest dream is for her nonprofit to open an art home for troubled teens where teens can learn to play the fiddle, paint, do theater, talk and laugh. Where old ladies sit on the porch, and teach teens to sew costumes, or knit and crochet, and grandpas teach how to wood work, carve and garden. To teach troubled teens to do art, instead of drugs- and to cook quiche not meth. In the early 1960’s an uncle who lived several states away had an effect on her understanding of art, and the human soul. He was a talented artist but after many years of heavy drug addiction, his artwork began to exhibit a convoluted desperation that only he understood. When he died she was given one of his paintings, a portrait of Jesus' face, and in-spite of having never met her uncle, his story, no matter how useless to anyone else, made an impact for others.
This by far took the longest of any painting I have created.
It was like a puzzle, every day I put it together piece by piece.
I was afraid to do the Chinese lettering because I know how easy it
Is to make a mistake and then who knows what you just wrote in Chinese?
My fear is grounded on reality.
Many years ago we had some Spanish speaking employees for our business I had
a little hand book on learning Spanish and was trying
to learn a phrase or two. They put up with me . I could say "¿Dónde está Phillippe ?
( Where is Phillip?) and they
would point me in the right direction. Then one morning I was on my way to work and
I hit a cat that ran in front of my car, and I wanted to tell them. I thought I remembered
what the word" dead" sounded like, and everybody knows cat is gato so I went into work
and said " El gato es una mierda." Then I made little hand motions
and charade signals to relay the story of the cat. They nodded solemnly. I figured they
were feeling pretty bad for that cat.
Later that week I was with a group of friends one of whom could speak fluent Spanish,
so I told him what I said to the
workers about the cat. He laughed until he cried. I was puzzled-"
"What?" I asked, "What?" He said between gasp of breath..
"Tammy, you were so close, but you said, "The cat is shit."
If you wanted to say the cat is dead you
should have said...El gato está muerto.
HUM
El gato está muerto - El gato es una mierda." .... it sounded the same to me. And so, it is true, close doesn't count...........except in horseshoes and hand grenades.
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