Tag: dailyprompt

Hmmm… this is a good one. I don’t ask people questions a lot. It’s not that I think everyone isn’t smart but I guess I worry I’ll sound insane. I read a lot of biographies though. I like philosophical thoughts. I model some of my qualities off people like Lenny Kravitz and Ben Harper. They just have a nice philosophy to living.

They try to just live and rest in their ideas in the pursuit of peace and creativity.

I’m on my long road to peace and creativity.

This in two was is not a shock and is very cliche but I love Halloween. I love movies like The Crow and Nightmare before Christmas. They were kind of my gather around the campfire films for me and my friends as teens. Even now when I think of it I want to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show. It just had all the cool costumes and special movie nights. It was silly, sexy and had candy. What’s not too like?

I have had this fear of success for a long time. When everyone is watching me do well in my art I get nervous. All the little mistakes I make to figure out things are on display. Funny thing is no one care about those things but me. It’s very silly, it’s all in my head.

I’m working on just making and not stopping to look around. I was better before I thought about all those things. Even if everyone notices and it’s not in my head, it shouldn’t really matter. I do it for the love of doing it first, and the success comes after.

A very long time ago I was in a mall. Many years before COVID we went to malls. I haven’t been to one in forever. Being around lots of people gives me small panic attacks some times. I’m working on it. So at this mall, I see this older handsome big bearded Sikh man and we are both waiting for our wives trying on clothes. We just chatted up and it was just really pleasant. Two brown men joking about bullshit. Very nice day.

For those who are not aware of Sikh people.

My cousin (primo) is a huge basketball fan all my life. Most of the men in my family are about a foot taller then me. He could dunk at 13. I am yet to even touch the rim at 5’10. He used to put me on his shoulders and jump at the rim. It was so much fun at age 13. I remember it greatly. It was simple but sticks with me too this day.

Geez, this one is a hard one. I have a hard time seeing my work in a positive light. I don’t think it’s negative by any means. I had this humble weapon beaten into my head.

I like to think I have brought a great deal of representation to my people in my art. I try to take away stigmas in language, features and hair types. It means a lot to me that people see themselves in art. Everyone should have that moment.

Reading list

Kate O’Neil- The tea dragon society (book)

Tv on the radio -wolf like me (music)

Mount Kilimanjaro

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?

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.