Always making
How would you improve your community?
I like to think I do it with representation. To make faces that look like them in my art. I try to put the culture in the art to help normalize it. To make me feel like home and hopefully others. If you can’t see yourself in your work how can others?
What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?
I honestly draw a little over a cup of coffee before everyone wakes up. Sometimes the cats come find me for head rubs. I listen to some chill old Coltrane album very lightly.
Sometimes I read as the sun comes up.
Kerouac, Baldwin, Cisneros and Gaiman are some of my favorite authors this decade.
Hola Galeras, hope you enjoyed the show.
I had the Salmon toast for Tacoma Bevco in Tacoma Park, Maryland.
The music playing at the beginning was an artist named Busdriver.
Links for the week
Elsa short film
Blacksad comic
https://www.europecomics.com/album/1-somewhere-within-the-shadows/
My Tumblr
https://eyeheartpainting.tumblr.com/
If you could have something named after you, what would it be?
Hmmm… hard question oddly enough. Nothing big, like a building or anything like that. Maybe something small like a type of green tea with spicy sweet boba.
My links
http://jayisapainter.storenvy.com
http://www.blurb.com/b/8829360-painter-files
Artisan Wellness Project – The Covered Market
“The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I’m trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven’t sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I’m trying to work through and get the one essential.” — John Coltrane
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