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What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. Hi, I'm Dan Taylor. I'm an IT consultant and artist. I grew up in a really musical family. So there was artistic expression all around growing up. Sometimes my inspiration is simply to make something that I think is beautiful and it's gonna look pretty on your living room wall. And it has morphed a little bit during the pandemic. Early on, like so many people, artists had to change how they worked. You know, I was so inspired by folks who immediately pivoted to, well, you know, I'm a fiber artist, now I'm gonna make masks because there's a need for masks because we've got a pandemic. You know, early on I went from kind of no inspiration to how could I not be inspired by what's going on around me? But part of what was going on around me was, you know, a really heightened awareness of social and racial justice, right? So paintings that I am putting myself on the canvas, but maybe something so simple as making something pretty to hang on the wall, also changed to trying to express my feelings on a canvas about social and racial injustices. And it's incredibly important stuff. And it can be very difficult to talk about. And I've got a piece coming up in a show called Justice Through Art. It's gonna be coming up here soon. And I did a painting called, we're all in this together. And I hope it inspires being part of a bigger conversation about, you know, what racial and social injustices that are happening, not that I do have a ton of work surrounding that. But if that comes out, then that would be thrilling. I'm Dan Taylor. I'm an artist and cat dad. You're listening to voices that inspire.