"I create a way for people to take their fear and visualize it in their own way so they can defeat it. The mind can be the greatest creator of positivity but also can create negative representations as well. The ultimate goal is for people to turn their negativity into positivity.”
Read More" Life is certainly changed by art, changed by music, it's changed by the depictions and the context of self-representation that we allow to happen. But at the same time we are normalized by the world, we are normalized by language, by family. Art is the interruption of the context of that normalization. So I don't really know what it would be like if everyone was an artist. I don't really know what art is for. I just know that the way it works, now, in my own experience and in the experience of my students with whom I share my doubts, is that it changes the world.”
Read More"I get very worked up and eager to do something when I hear horrifying things on the news. I want to do something, I want to help. I want to bring attention to that subject, and to also give solutions. It's really important in my opinion - to not just highlight the horror but to present ideas of what we can do about it."
Read MoreI'm a maker that's trying to make a difference. My medium isn't important. My message is cohesive. It's all about communication of human issues. I try to make my work shiny or beautiful - some element of beauty so that the observer walks in and stays with it for one extra second. It's about that extra beat that they're with it and all of a sudden I've snagged you. I'm infiltrating a little bit.
Read More"Not all art is storytelling, and not all storytelling is art What I'm interested in is storytelling as an art form -- and a very democratic art form. It's something that everybody can do. No matter what your age is, or your intellectual ability is or your education or your race -- it makes no difference. Every human being has access to our birthright. It's our birthright to be storytellers."
Read More"I really know where I stand in this universe. I'm a black man. And I feel that the color of my skin is something very special - powerful. But the world we live in - it's kind of backwards."
Read More"Everybody needs to learn to sell -- whether you're actually in the business of performing a service or selling products or goods to people or trying to get them to perceive something. Even with artists, besides selling their product or their service, photographers for instance have to make people comfortable. They have to sell their own credibility and help bring people through a process."
Read More(To) understand basic laws of the universe - drumming gets you pretty close - like in dancing - you can't lie. And you can't lie playing drums. If you are in search of truth-of-self drumming is probably one of the most beautiful and easy things to be able to channel the truth of life.
Read More"I feel that I had to become an artist so that I could see, hear, taste, and smell what freedom really is, and to me that was art. And now I feel that my path is to be able to share art with kids who have not had those opportunities."
Read MoreBabel - New York - Dimanche 1/27/16
Read MoreThe Mobile Studio helped kick off Jack Daniel's Motel No. 7 five-city tour in late November 2015. It was a perfect fit for us; an-immersive-experience-within-an-immersive-experience. Loved the energy of the guests and creating portraits on the custom-built set of an old-school "royal suite" took the Mobile Studio experience to a whole new level.
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