Ava Hayes' Artwork

Life is full of surprises. Google failing me, yet again is not one of them. "What to call your first blog". "Catchy headlines", "How to BLOG", etc. Feel free to cringe, I certainly did. Originality was clearly seeping out of me as I sat in a chair, which thankfully enabled me to spin whilst cringing. Spin and cringe....that could have been a good title.

Maybe the issue was that I didn't know who I was writing this post for. If anyone would read it. Why anyone would read it. Or if I in-fact cared about any of the above. Yet here I am. Ava Hayes, "Blogger Extraordinaire". There is obviously no truth to my self proclaimed title, as you will soon find out. Ava Hayes is unfortunately, a slow typer, an even worse speller and has (regardless of my English teachers fruitless battle) a strong hate/hate relationship with punctuation,grammar, syntax etc. Frankly, I am a readers dream.

But hey, the world loves a trier!

Ava Hayes "trier extraordinaire", infamous at laughing at her own jokes at library computers.

Moving on... as I said, I had numerous questions in the beginning. The beginning, of course being ten minutes ago when I pressed the 'Blog' option. But, here I am with the answers. As to who I am writing this for, the answer is simply myself (and whoever cares enough to listen to me ramble). To those people, THANK YOU. World domination is a slow process; especially when your most fluent language is English, riddled with sarcasm.

As to why, the answer is also simple. I have wanted to for a very long time now. As Vincent van Gogh once said, "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced". My blog however was my paint. I have silenced the voice and I intend to keep it as such. I highly recommend the same reaction to all voices telling you that 'you cannot'.

I simply have a voice. A voice that I am rarely shy to use. A voice that I would very much like to be heard. Between my work as an artist and on here, perhaps I will be.

I was born to create.

I am an artist.

Welcome to my mind.

-A.H