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Artist Erika Moran:

“My message is to carry the greatness that we all have inside, and

that greatness implies art”

Oranjestad - Erika Moran, an artist Depression is a word that she felt
of plastic art that has gone through and lived personally. She feels the
many phases in her life, sat down need to speak about this topic be-
in an interview and told the story of cause she knows that “there are a
life taught her what she had inside lot of people out there at this mo-
of her and what this can bring to ment, in all parts of the world, that
others. fall into a great sadness. I discov-
ered that this is a way that my soul
would speak to me and tell me to
bring out everything that I really
am.”

In this search, everyone looks for
what they can give to others and
what the things we receive can
give us, “but that is not what truly
fills you,” Erika expressed. Moran
discovered that she was looking on
the outside for something that was
already within her. “What I found
was that I am an artist and through
that I started to explore the nature
of Aruba. I connected with its col-
ors and through my artwork I want-
ed to transmit this to others.”

Through colors and the psychology
During the interview, Moran went of each one of them, she started
back in time and talked about to use her brushes to illustrate the
how she came to Aruba from Bar- fauna, flora and beaches to trans-
ranquilla, Colombia 14 years ago mit an emotional state for people Moran expressed that in her opin- that although the road is hard, we
ion, everyone has art and every-
have to connect with each other
following love, and that led to her to be able to connect through her
exploring the culture of Aruba. She artwork with their emotional state. one is an artist. The only way each so we can be a lighthouse for each
person can channel that is through other. Imagine if we all could real-
would read the national anthem, “Psychology through color can
learn the language and meet lo- transmit calm, stress or a state of art and that state of creativity in- ize this? We can achieve a differ-
cludes different emotions like hap-
ent world. We have to help each
cals, all which in her thoughts were internal searching that represents
for a reason. “I connected with the road of your sub conscious- piness, sadness, euphoria, that in other and that way we can create
turn the artist can relate to as well a marvelous chain that will take
the tranquility of the island, with ness and the road can be repre-
harmony, the beach for me is my sented through the colors purple,
therapy and through an immense blue, red, until you reach the color
search, I discovered that I had a lot yellow that represents illumination.
of time without painting and I fell That is the message, to carry the
into a great sadness,” said Moran. greatness that everyone has inside.
And that greatness implies art.”

as every other person that has time, but is worth it all.”
these emotions in them. “That was
my journey to accept myself after She also informed that she pro-
many tries to be someone else, an- motes events for our visitors to also
other version of myself. Now I am learn art, tell their history of Aruba,
an artist and I teach others that we talk about the touristic places and
all have this capacity in us.” paints them as well. With this, peo-
ple can connect with culture, art
The essence of coming to his world and gets a different experience of
is to learn, and just as Moran em- entertainment.
phasizes, teaching others how to
learn is part of it. “We need to teach