Nadia Blanton, born 2001, lives and works in Dallas, Texas.

Young woman with dark curly hair and light skin in a pink velour jacket and matching pants, standing in front of a colorful array of flowers, holding a pink protea flower, wearing a blue evil eye necklace.

My work is documentation. I collect and study memories closest to me, so I learn honestly about myself and people everywhere. Imagery, music, and conversation speak to my imagination.

I’ve continued my practice in tribute to the younger girl I was, exposed to what I am now rediscovering— all these gaps of memories and things I wanted to forget or won’t ever get back. Like nightly dreams present emotions, I write and illustrate to resurface those buried thoughts. My curiosity motivates me to visually combine people and places that are of distant worlds.

In my practice, I choose opposing colors and textures and make them harmonize. I use clashy, eclectic visual and verbal inspiration to bring my moods into a physical form.

I like to imagine I am dismantling what I know and then reconstructing from what I learned during the break down. Sometimes I feel there aren’t enough shapes to express my inner world, so I make my own. I construct something I feel, but haven’t seen before.

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My heart is in a good place.

Vintage photo of a woman with dark curly hair in a black top and jeans, standing in a bookstore or library, surrounded by shelves filled with books.
Sketches including a smiling sun with rays, a woman with long hair, two clover symbols, a face with closed eyes, a butterfly with a heart-shaped body, and some handwritten words.
A woman with dark hair in braids, wearing a brown coat, paints an abstract colorful canvas on an easel in a room with gray lockers and a white brick wall.
Messy craft table with photos, colorful papers, scissors, a tablet, and storage boxes in a creative workspace.