ART PEOPLE
Featured Artist: Maia Valenzuela
What’s your favorite out of stuff you’ve done?
I really like this drawing I did from a series called “The Sea Inside” – It’s supposed to be me holding a spiky old starfish, I was visiting the Philippines in 2007 and went snorkeling with my brother in Zambales. He accidentally placed one of those “crown of thorns” starfish under my hand as I was about to grab the reef, and it was the most excruciating pain I’ve ever experienced from an animal. It’s a good thing that it was only a juvenile starfish because apparently the adult versions have a deadly neurotoxin that can kill humans. It also made my hands swell like boxing gloves so I’m glad it subsided, I would hate to lose my hands.




