Tag: dailyprompt

Describe one positive change you have made in your life.

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

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.

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.

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”.

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.

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

Quacy

I think it means strength in Swahili.

Jãwara Quacy means quiet strength. I think it describes my painting style very well.

What is the last thing you learned?

That I can use google translate in my iBook app. I really love reading but some times I’m doing to many things at once so audiobooks are great but costly, this is a hack to that. I have read around 5 books this way. It brings me a lot of joy.