Adaobi Ugoagu is a Los Angeles-based fashion blogger who has a deep passion for design, social justice, and Jesus. Her eclectic writing background includes: producing an ethnography on the institutionalization of the American Church, and publishing content for the beauty and entertainment aggregator BeautyCon. She is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California.
AS YOU APPROACH the southern part of the Los Angeles Arts District, you come across a narrow back alleyway where warped monsters and psychedelic fonts jump off the wall of a large building.
GRACE SAT AT HER DESK with a clean sheet of paper, the blank sheet beckoning her to begin the process of creating. Placed to the right of the paper were five colored pencils — all the materials she would use for this session.