This speaks dearly to me...

“One of the advantages of being an immigrant is that two very different countries are forced to merge within you. The language you were born speaking and the one you will probably die speaking have no choice but to find a common place in your brain and regularly merge there.”
Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

 Art by, B.J. Adams, Diversing, Merging, Flowing from Small Art Works