Category: life
Q and a
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?
The start
Q and a
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.
Always making
Weird q and a
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.
Hmmm…
What is one word that describes you?
It used to be “random.”
As I was out of no where with a lot of stuff. As time goes by I think I’m black hole sized ways.
So now I say the word is “lucid”.
Trying to be healthier
Hola Galeras
I think the funniest part of being a West Indian Afro Latino man is all the ways we celebrate cultures. We have a lot of Asian traditions. This is one of them. South America is a huge mixing pot. Ever since I was a kid we celebrated Chinese New Year with my cousins from China. That one day got me into iron teapots and lose tea leaves.
I feel this deep connections to my culture in the simple traditions. Somos todos uma pessoa. (We are all one person.)
Tchau,
Jaws
I really just enjoy books and YouTube
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?
I have such a hard time watching tv. I don’t have the attention span. I have been embarrassed about my ADHD for a long time and I’m learning to love myself better. I daydream if I sit still too long.
Books work better for me. My mind goes everywhere. I fall into worlds and then I paint the things I see sometimes.
Movies in theaters sometimes are fun. It’s hard for me not to walk around with a sketchbook.
I mind is fluid. Like outer space.
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