"just...do what makes you happy."
"just...do what makes you happy."
Day
Mixed Media Artist | Designer
“I’m inspired by alot…. I don’t want to necessarily be famous, but I want to make money off my art one day”
“Im inspired by architecture, I’m inspired by nature, a bunch of other artists, especially black artists. It’s something about following someone and just watching them grow. That motivates me, like I can get there. I can get to a slight point of “fame” or just a space where I could make money off my art. Over the past couple years just seeing them in big spaces that they’ve never been before is very inspiring. Like I can get into that space one day.”
“If you could choose a different medium, what would it be?
“Oh my gosh.
I wish I could sculpt; like marble or something because that is amazing. That time and patience to make stuff look soft. Like how do you make stone look soft? I love it and I wish I could do that.
I would love to be a sculptor because that is amazing.” - Day
“I would love to be a scupltor.”
“for me, I think my biggest success would be having an art show in one of my favorite museums overseas or something. Or just having my art in a museum, because I want it there, not because I died or something.
I need it to happen while I’m alive and appreciated.
Just having people admire my art, even if they hate it…I just want them to see it in a museum. I think that’s what success is for me.
As long as I love it, and have it out there for people to see it, on my own terms; that’s when I’ve made it.” - Day
define success as an artist—
“I think I stay motivated knowing that I actually love doing this for myself. Like I don’t just do this for other people or to just make money.
I paint or I take pictures because thats what I love doing,
it brings me peace.”
- Day
“Honestly…I just want people to see my art and be like ‘I feel good; I wana feel like this forever"; and I feel like my goal is to make people feel like that; and at that point I have left something behind in this world.”
— Day
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