Seattle nurse-turned-artist channels her “Black Girl Magic“ to create vibrant and powerful works of

“I feel like my paintings are a love letter to myself,“ said artist Aramis Hamer. “As a black woman, we can feel, I know I can feel not seen, not loved, not represented.“ Hamer feels she is able to harness her creativity through Black Girl Magic. “Black Girl Magic is recognizing the ability that African American women have to alchemize their pain and their struggle into strength. So in that, it’s really like just creating my own narrative, writing my own story and making sure that I’m represented the way that I want to be represented.“ “I had to discover the power that I had within and once I discovered that power, I wanted to represent it through my work.“ She began her journey as a registered nurse in Seattle. “I love healing. I love helping people, but as a nurse, I saw that I wasn’t helping healing them in the way that I saw as most beneficial,“ she explained, “So I moved out here to Seattle and fell in