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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