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33 Filling in the Heart Nikol Pacholec Human beings have been filling blank spaces with their thoughts, emotions, and environments since as far back as historians and archeologists can date. There are cave paintings reaching as far back as 650 A.D. with animals and with rituals and with smatterings of tales. These are the basic stepping stones of people collectively categorizing the world surrounding them, the trickling beginnings to creativity and culture. Now, thousands of years since the first stroke of simple berry-based paste was smeared onto rock, the human consciousness has long used art to record, worship, cherish, witness, and dream the fleeting moments of time around them. The people who contributed to this wonderful craft are called artists, and some of their endless toils led to the foundations of how humans react and see the world around them. These masterworks spawned schools of thought and reason, flourishing under oppressive regimes or aiding them in their tyranny. One must never forget the profound impact these silent dramas created. But all that history and all these people are behind us. Someone fresh is out there right now, holding a