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I was born to be an artist, painting from as far as I could remember.
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The speaker describes being an artist as something present from birth, not a later choice. They also say they had been painting for as long as they could remember, presenting art as a practice that began in their earliest memories and continued throughout their life.
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- The Jamaica Gleaner
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