Hello, My name is Kalahiki Reid. I grew up in Aiea in Honolulu, Hawaii. I bounced around from school to school until I went to Aiea high school. After graduating I went to Leeward Community College before transferring to UH West O‘ahu. If I was an artist tool, I would be the eraser. I would help undo a mistake to make room for improvements and corrections until the desired outcome is achieved.
The value of a human being is measured by their physical appearance. They must be visually pleasing or be ostracized and scorned. Research of various cultures has shown what they consider beautiful and how it has changed over time. The methods people have used to achieve those beauty standards all vary, but modify their bodies to a degree; some are more extreme than others. Beauty standards create a toxic influence on our youth and turn us into our worst critics. It is important to push back against these ideals of what is considered beautiful and learn to be kind to others and ourselves for not meeting these impossible standards.
The concept of creativity has come a long way. The Old Greeks would call those creative forces muses, other religions referred to them as God. Today people still mostly treat creativity as an aha moment outside the area of influence. However, just by looking at the creative process one can tell, that creativity and creative work is more than just that one "Aha-Moment" (insight). It is clear that generating ideas demands planning and preparation, identifying something of interest like a problem, an opportunity or a challenge, doing research. This then leads to thinking of a solution, allowing time to incubate and iterations before arriving at something “complete.” Students learn that hard work is what makes their ideas come to life and sticktuiveness is what helps them get better.