Basic .
Global-BASED Creator
“I might not be god but I hold the devil back.”
Basic is a global-based storyteller, artist, cipher, and art director. Their juxtaposition between shadow and light punctuates their signature style. Basically a belief that storytelling in a myriad of mediums illuminates the interconnectivity of our human experience that crosses the barrier beyond language, race, country, and creed.
“They wandered, what a wonder”
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Pastel
“When you can learn to be comfortable in the uncomfortable you will master yourself.”
I love the basic danger that is inherent when working with pastels. One can spend endless hours shading and blending only for a sneeze to create an eternal smudge in which the piece can never return. For me, working with pastels is a metaphor, for practicing patience, that allows you a low-stakes arena to practice the art of letting go. When creating with pastels one learns to let go of an idea of the art and allows the work, atmosphere, and life to take the lead. Pastels give space to tell the story of the artist and for the art to breathe life into this world as well, with each mistake it creates beauty in itself and of itself.
Acrylic
“It is in the layering of life and art do we see the true beauty of existence.”
When I was 23 I saw my very first Jackson Pollock and was blown away not by the sheer scale of the pieces but by the life embedded in them. In one piece there was a key, another a cigarette bud, a hair, and more. I remember thinking to myself how beautiful those small reminiscences were and how the environment informed the creations. Pollock wasn’t in a sterilized, posh, art studio, nor was he creating with the thought that this would one day be in a historic museum where thousands of people a day would see it. No, he was creating the art because he needed to create the art, he had a deep compulsion to do so. One can still feel the intense passion pulsating off the work decades later. I hope that the work I contribute to this world radiates my reality without words.
Water COlor
“I do not wish to be known merely felt.”
I find that there is a simple yet satisfying beauty when it comes to working with watercolor because one uses the earth and its minerals to create. I adore the soft hues and the act of building the pigment up over time. I enjoy the delicate process of mixing and creating vibrant colors on my porcelain pallet and the stroke of my squirrel hair brush on the paper. Perhaps it is the romantic in me that loves watercolor and its transformative capabilities to be both soft and hard for it is a direct reflection of myself; holding both soft and hard, light and dark, grace and strength.
