Healing Fashion

Healing Fashion is boutique Fashion designer Taylor Bryant’s love for color and texture. He aims to create clothing that looks cool and beautiful and feels great to wear. His energy in his work is geared towards healing, with the ultimate goal of making his clients feel amazing in the clothes he designs for them.
Many of Taylor’s clients are creatives, and he often creates unique healing fashion pieces for them. Taylor’s goal is to empower people to tell their own healing stories through the clothes he makes.
Taylor is not only an artist but also creates fine art. His work explores love, connections, human relationships, and identity. Currently, his art is focused on self-healing and reclaiming one’s identity. Often, his work is narrative-based, telling stories of individuals’ journeys toward understanding and self-empowerment. His art is like snapshots of personalities during journeys. He often incorporates elements from dreams, fantasy, and spirituality to communicate different states of being as we travel through emotions.
Taylor is particularly interested in exploring the perspectives of people of color and black Americans as they relate to his identity and self-love. His goal is to generate work that people from many walks of life can connect with, and a desired by-product of his art is to generate insight, conversation, fun, and the concept of being free.
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We talk about

• Wearable arts
• Intuitive Art
• Color Therapy
• Mental healing and fashion therapy
• Frequency and vibrations of clothes and colors
• Change your clothes – change your energy

Taylor is here to bring your unique vision to life with his custom pieces. He’s committed to understanding your preferences and using his intuition to create a piece that reflects the feeling you want. With Taylor’s reasonable prices, you can experience the joy of owning a truly one-of-a-kind creation.
Taylor Bryant is a highly accomplished multidisciplinary creative hailing from Dallas, Texas, and is now based in Southern California. With extensive training in traditional printmaking and book-making techniques, he has honed his craft to perfection. Taylor holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the renowned University of Texas at Austin and has worked with some of the most prestigious studios in the industry. His impressive portfolio boasts numerous group exhibits and highly successful solo shows, making him one of the most sought-after artists of our time.www.taytaypierre.com

Episode Transcript

(00:50):
Welcome to Get Over It, theConscious Distress for Me podcast for exceptional twenty
first century libby folks. I amso jazzed today. Where are sing with
a true artist. He is someonethat I met who listened to my podcast.
I was blown away when he calledand said he listened to my podcast
and we did a little bit ofwork together and he introduced me to his

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work and I was like wow,because he does creative work on print.
You know, he's a fine artist. He also works with clothing and he
can create clothing that will heal youwhile you wear it. We're going to
talk a little bit more about thata bit. But this gentleman and his

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name is Taylor Bryant and you cancheck him out at his website Tete Pierre.
It's a lot of healing going onthere now. The information shot and
Get Over It uses intuitive and pragmaticinsight to help you shift your consciousness to
break to the blocks and release energythat is no longer needed. Yes,

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we're going to help you let goof the bs that's been holding you back.
But you guys know, I alwaysask are you truly ready to?
And by the way, folks,be s this belief system. Excuse me
a bit about me for my newlisteners. Intuitive since birth. I'm a
third generation Intuitive, but over threedecades of experience supporting people to break through
the blocks along their path. I'ma strategist for personal and professional transformation,

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revealing cutting edge information that enables youto prosper and thrive. I spent twenty
five successful years in corporate America asan executive sales professional, and I'm the
founder of Healing Visions Ministries in theNorthern California Children's Education Network IF five oh
one C three nonprofit. I provideconsultations and healings in all areas of life

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that heal the mind, body spiritconnection, allowing you to live your very
best life. My clients tell methat I keep it real while providing them
with accurate information to a system alongtheir journey as a spirit living in human
existence. But they also say,if you really don't want to know to
Asthma naque. My background includes adoctorate metaphysics REGAKI, Master teacher for Jane

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Minister, and clinical hypnotherapist. Sowhether you are stressed and depressed or posest,
so I can help to find outmore about me and the services I
offered talk to my website this morning, tapman dot com, and I invite
you to like and follow me onFacebook and LinkedIn. We don't do that
X thing, so don't even bother. Okay. My guest today, Taylor
Bryant is a multidisciplinary creator from Dallas, Texas. He is trained in traditional

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printmaking and bookmaking techniques. Taylor's educationalbackground includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts from
the University of Texas at Austin.He has worked in many professional arts studios
focused on mediums such as mosaics,roll painting, glass working, and public

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works. Currently, Taylor lives andworks out of southern California and he produces
fine art and clothing. And again, you can check him out at his
website, and that's akpier dot com. T A Y t A Y p
I E R r E dot com. Welcome Taylor, Hey, thanks for

(04:15):
Nick. Hey, so great tohave you because I said you called and
and I'm like, how did youhear about me? And you said,
I listened to your podcast and youremember my reaction. I was completely freaked
out and blown the way. Sothank you, thank you, thank you.
You're such a talented young man.I really appreciate the fact that you
picked up the phone and called andwe had the opportunity to meet. So

(04:36):
why don't we fill the audience ina little bit about your general background,
like where you're from, where you'reartistic as a kid, or was it
something you learned later. Give usa little capsulever version of Taylor. So
I'm originally from Dallas, Texas,and uh, you know, my family's
from all over, mostly like Texasand New York, and uh, yeah,

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it was great as a kid,but really coming into being a visual
creative that happened more so when Iwas in my early twenties. I did
all different kinds of like creative thingsas a kid, but I didn't really
consider myself an artist. I thinkI was going through like a rough patch
in my early twenties and I reallyturned to art to sort of like help

(05:20):
me heal and like get through thatperiod. And then because my mother and
my stepfather are both artists, Isort of looked at it differently and I
was like, well, I haveall this training that I didn't realize I
had in terms of an esthetic eyeand just certain kinds of standards. So

(05:40):
when I started making visual art,I sort of tapped into like another part
of myself and then I realized,like I wanted to develop it. So
yeah, I just sort of gotinto making visual art as a way to
like help myself move through like arough season. Okay, so you were

(06:01):
healing yourself way back when. Idon't know if you were conscious that it
was healing, but at least itmade you feel better, so you knew
to go down that path when thingswere kind of upside down. And when
you went to school, did theyteach anything regarding I know they taught all
the basics of art in all ofthat, but they bring the consciousness of

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what art can do for people orwas it that just outside of the scope
of the class. I think thatwas outside the scope of the class,
But I think it's something that sortof struck me. I've always been interested
in history, but I feel likehistory is very like you know, it
changes depending on the times. Andwhat I noticed with art, like it

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was definitely it indicated like humanity's levelof consciousness or intelligence based on what kind
of art you could see. Studyingart history, like, I just realized,
like you need to have certain kindsof tools or perspective to really be
able to create like pieces from likethe Hellenistic era with their proportions or certain

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kinds of paints during like the Renaissanceor Late Renaissance. Is just super fascinating.
Wow. I love your enthusiasm behindall that you have have to say.
So, you've got this art thinggoing on and it's making you feel
better, so you know it's goingto make other people feel better. How

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does looking at art itself, whetherit's clothing, a painting, a mural,
how does that consciousness come into ourbody and how does it heal?
What are your thoughts about that?So? I think in terms of relating

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consciousness to consciousness or like information fromperson to person, the right idea really
struck me when I got into printmakingand understanding the history of printmaking, and
you know the Gutenberg Bible and howthose one of the first books to be
mass printed, and just like howideas traveled from person to person, I

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think the same thing happens in art. I'm really interested in textiles from Ghana
and they believe that they could codeinformation into the weaving. So how they
weaved their textiles and the colors ofthe use and the patterns was meant to

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signify certain kinds of messages. Andwhen I learned that, and you know,
just sort of like realizing, Ithink that translates to all media.
A sculpture of painting, poems thatare sort of vague, the underlying unders
and the intentions and information gets passedfrom person to person, whether it be

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conscious or unconscious. Yeah, andsometimes I think there's really powerful stuff in
that, like and I also thinkit depends on where you're at and your
level of perception sometimes, because it'slike you can come back to pieces and
uncovered new layers and I think that'sbeautiful, you know, Yeah it is.

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And you know, I hadn't reallythought about that because I have some
limited art hanging up in my homeoffice and look at it sometimes I do
get, you know, like adifferent vibe from it. Like I can
look at you know, I've gotlike six ladies here on the beach walking
into the water, and you lookat it one day and it's one thing,
and you look at the other dayit's like, oh, the suffering
because they got heavy packages on theirhead, you know. Or you look

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at it again and it's like roundedand healing, because this is where we
came from. So it's wonderful howthe energy just kind of intertwined there.
Now I call you. You callyourself an artist, but I call you
antique fashion designer with a twist.And the twist is that you can take
art on excuse me, many differentlevels and actually apply it to people.

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You have this intuitive knack if youwill to listen to someone talk and be
able to come up with a piece, whether it's clothing, fine art,
coaster, whatever, to help them. How does this come about? Because
I mean, you know, youdon't know these people, but you can
tune right in. Yeah. Ithink part of it is, like I

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I'm very interested in like frequency andvibration, and I feel like I've always
been intuitive and had a layer ofempathy. And I think from being able
to to observe as a kid,like I was able to deduce things,
and then as I got older,I was able to feel into things,

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and just building upon observation and feelinginto things, I think I reached a
point where I was able to havediscussions with people and pick up little things
and then be able to sort offeel into what would be the best way

(11:31):
to proceed in terms of making apiece. For them or doing creative services
for them a lot of people.And I also think just working in different
studios and relationship to because I feelexcuse me getting excited. I feel like
when you work with people as acreative professionally providing service, sometimes they don't

(11:56):
have the language to describe what theywant, so you have to sort of
meet them where they're at and thenbe able to take them where they want
to go. And I think justbeing able to combine that with my other

(12:18):
intuitive faculties has led me to aspecific place. Yeah. Interesting because it
sounds like you do what I do, You just do it with color and
clothes and other mediums where I justtalk. So you give someone like a
focal point, if you will,excuse me to focus on and then move

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forward. So why is wearing clothesbecause we need them because they won't let
us go nude at least not yet. Why just choose your color of clothes
so important, especially if you're workingthrough something, you know, because I
know that if I'm having a downday and we all have them, folks,

(13:00):
and if I put on yellow orgold or red, I instantly feel
better. And if I want tokeep my pity party going, I put
on a darker color, like abrown. So why is it so important?
How do we navigate that the colorsand our health. Well, like,

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I'm a big proponent of color therapy, and I feel like in a
lot of the environments I've lived,there have been a lot of dominant colors.
And I really enjoy clothing as communicationand like clothing as expression and clothing

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as a means to elevate your moodor keep a certain kind of mood going.
Because when I was younger, Ididn't really have a lot of gloves
or actually, like I had aperiod where I got like really cool clothes,
and like, you know, asI got older, like I couldn't

(14:09):
afford clothes, and then when itgot to the space where it's like I
was very particular about things and Iliked finding unique pieces, and then it
got to another point where I feltlike everything was the same. So I
wanted to take on making my ownclothes because I really enjoy color, and

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I feel like currently a lot ofpeople are really into the earth tones and
like monochromatic colors, but I justI feel like there's so much richness in
clothing from other cultures, and Idon't want to just go down a lane

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where some of that vibrancy, someof that culture doesn't get appreciated and mainstream
American culture. So okay, well, you know that's really interesting because my
son that you know, we've talkedduring the years, and my son that's

(15:16):
the same age as you was gettingmarried and he's marrying an Indian girl.
So I get to play with Indianfabrics and all, and you know,
when you put it on, it'sa different feel. It's a different feel
between the Indian clothes, the Africanclothes, and American clothes. I mean,
it's when I put on African basedclothes, it's like I'm grounded,
you know, like the energy goesto my first chakra and I'm grounded to

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Earth, and the Indian clothes alittle bit foreign for me. So it's
like I get like these waves ofwell, I feel good. I'm content,
but not quite myself because it doesn'tI haven't fully integrated that into my
system. So talk to us abouthow because you said that you really like

(16:00):
the Ghanaian I believe, Prince,So how can even if you are not
Ghanaian or have any interest really inthe Ghanaians as a people, how can
we utilize a swatch or a pieceof clothing from them to help us feel

(16:23):
a whole lot better. I thinkit's interesting how you're talking about how the
African style clothing make you feel oneway, in the Indian stew clothing make
you feel a different way. WhenI first started making clothes, I could

(16:44):
notice the energy in the clothes thatI was making, and the goal was
ultimately to have people feel great inthe clothes, so, you know,
putting good energy into the clothes,just like cooking. And sometimes it would,
you know, freak me out iflike I was in like a weird

(17:07):
space and I made some clothes,like I didn't know whether or not to
put that out there. But thenalso seeing that sometimes that serves a purpose
too. You know, It's likeif it's a mood, like someone's really
attracted to that that they vibrate with, that they resonate with that you're talking
about, you know, something thatmaybe out of your culture, but you're

(17:30):
attracted to it. Like I'm ofmixed rice and I've always been attracted to
African cultures. And when I wasresearching, you know, African prints,
I found out that a lot ofthem are made in made by the Dutch,

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So you know, there's sort oflike a interesting connection there because it's
like here's something that's typically associated witha country, but it's not necessarily produced
in that country. In the country. Yeah, and I think it all
comes down to what you personally resonatewith, you know. It's like and

(18:22):
trying different stuff out. I thinkthere's a lot of stuff that people try
in order to you know, sortof get like social media, cloud or
things like that. Mm hmm.But you know, I'm more interested in
long term pieces, like something thatyou want to keep in your closet for

(18:44):
a while. So it's like,you know, let all that go.
It won't stay, you know.It's like so I think trying things out,
seeing how they feel, seeing howyour body responds to it. And
I feel like when you start learningabout one thing, it just leads to

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another, Like it creates like aconnection almost like a note point that leads
to another point. And let's let'ssee, Like for me, like learning
about patterns from Ghana sort of ledto other like I would say it started

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going into West African stuff and thenSouth African stuff, and then that led
to some foreign things because of occupation. And it's when you really start researching
how clothing is made in the world. It's very fascinating. Yeah, I

(19:57):
could talk about it a long time. Well, I've been talking about it
for a long time. How cancreative works bring a community together and improve
environments? I mean we're living inlike I think it's held right now all
over the world. Wars is thatand you know, nothing seems to be

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happy. How can our clothing helpus not feel that energy? So help
oldly, I think, you know, sometimes it can provide a sense of
like exuberance or vitality, especially likein a grim situation or even just like

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let's say you're in an environment thatdoesn't resonate with your inner world, and
I think clothing can be an avenueto enrich your day to day and maybe
like a space where you're not feelingcomfortable to be fully yourself. Mh.

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I noticed, like all the littlethings matter, so like little touches add
up to really increase a mood orincrease the experience of life. And not
only do I think that clothing canlike contribute, but I think art.
You know, I've gone through manydifferent environments and where I'm at right now

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in my life, I'm really aboutenjoying life because I think it's like a
gift and it's precious, and italso also depends like how you perceive it,
you know, like what your perceptionis. And I'm coming to realize
there's like almost an infinite number ofperceptions about how you can perceive life,

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and you know, you can changethe dial and choose like how you want
to see things. And I thinklife is really beautiful. And I like
the idea of beautifying environments and creatingspaces where individuals can feel themselves and also
like individuals can come together as individualsand have community and feel you know,

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appreciated in a sense of connection.And and my experience of working on public
projects or projects for I guess youcould say certain communities or like schools or
things like that. MMM, it'sreally great to see like people come together

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in enjoyment of like doing creative work. It typically seems like everybody he's like
having a good time, like crackingjokes and stuff like that. And it's
just I really like that energy andI really enjoy seeing people in that energy.
And I think a lot of peopledon't see themselves as creative, but

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I think everybody is creative, andyou know, it can be applied in
all these different ways. And Ithink seeing people access their creativity and then
recognize themselves as creatives is a certainkind of power and like a certain kind
of freedom. And when I startseeing people apply that to their environments and

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their lives and their clothing, like, I think it's really beautiful because it's
just almost like like seeing a birdfly or something like that, you know,
a certain kind of freedom. AndI think that since like people are
like community creatures. When others arecreative and they're doing it in tandem with

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other people, like the capacity expandsand things just get better better in a
certain regard, Like I'm always surprisedand amazed that like things I never could
have thought of, but seeing otherpeople bring it to you know, the
global culture is really interesting, oreven like the culture on a community level.

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So I think, you know,creativity and like clothing, I think
it's best as a communal activity.I think some of the best clothes come
out of like a group of peopleworking together to make it. And because
of my printmaking background, like I'mreally interested in how they used to use

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print to create clothing and they tohave line not parties where they would carve
out patterns and then like they wouldstamp their own fabric and create print repeats
and like just you know, eatfood and drink wine and this seems like

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a good time. And like,I just like that idea of getting together
and making stuff. I think it'shealthy. I think it's I think creativity
is healthy for communities. Like yeah, okay, well I chuckle when you
said that, because folks tailors inthe process of creating a piece for me,

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and I'm like, okay, doyou want to top a bottom?
What it is that you want?And he goes, whatever you want to
send me, because I want youto keep this in your closet for years
and years to come and enjoy it. And then I was like, oh
okay, and then it's like,well, what you're going to put on
it? He goes, well,I'll think about that and of course improve

(26:03):
it, you know, prove itwith you beforehand. But this man can
just tune into who I am ata core level and it is almost inexplicable.
A little frightening too, because youcan see my soul, but it
it's just inexplicable. How he works, So tell them when we go to
your website ktpier dot com, youhave numerous examples up there. As you

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are creating something for me that isgoing to be special. How do you
work with others? Can they justbuy product that they see on your website
or do they place an order?Give us your process of the clothing and
your heart. Yeah, so whenyou go to my website, you can
totally buy pieces that are pre made. I'm in the process of learning more

(26:56):
about screenprinting, so when I makegraphic te's sometimes I'll put up pre orders
and people can buy pre orders thatway. And I also do commission pieces,
so you can email me or wecan set up a time to talk.
And when I do commissions, especiallyregarding clothing, I like to communicate

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and get a feel for where theperson's at, what kind of colors they
like, and what they're generally attractedto, so I can create pieces or
a piece based on, you know, things that they love. Basically.
Okay, is there such thing asa negative color? I don't think that

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there is. Okay, A lotof people say like black and dark rowns
and dark purples or just like Ithink that there are positive and negative qualities
to all colors. Mm hmm,yeah, okay. And people that can

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order right from your website if theywant or do they have to contact you?
How does that work? Uh,they can order right from my website.
There's a about tab on my websitewhere you can send an email.
I also have an email which isuh Tay Tape here at gmail dot com

(28:32):
that people can email, Okay,and that's t A Y folks, just
you know, t A Y tA Y and just you in case you
want to contact him, like today, Taylor, I've enjoyed our time together.
As I said, you're working ona piece for me and I know
I'm going to love it. Now. I'll actually share that online once it's
done. But folks, go tota Pere dot com and check out his

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work. You know, he's hisown little apstole the way I put it,
and his pieces are quite unique andthe energy that is given in those
pieces. His pieces are created withlove, okay, And I mean you
can tell it. And if hecreates something that he wasn't such in love

(29:18):
energy at the time, that showstoo. But those days are God and
he's just creating with love. AndI absolutely positively love it, So,
Taylor, could you give us apearl of wisdom regarding art, clothes,
color, however, whatever you wantto talk about. Yeah, I think

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art is precious, Like I thinkit's important to humanity. I think it
is like the real indicator of wherewe've been and where we can go.
And I think anybody can be acreative. And I think art can be

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used for many different things. AndI think it can be used for healing.
Walk. Yeah. Wow, thankyou, thank you, thank you
so much for sharing that, andTaylor, thank you for sharing your time
this morning. I greatly appreciate itand know that you're local, and I
know the audience does too. Andeveryone, please remember that the most important

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choice that you can make is whatyou choose to make important. Consider the
making the masterful choice of wearing horriblehealing art above the blessings like not all okape