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a young voice and his take on odds blending fine arts and illustration. i've been making odd since i was 5 years old. it's been a big part of my life. i don't think i would know who i am without it. so, art is me and i of art is like medicine for me. when i am said from it's all, ha, ha, african ginger. i'm a contemporary artist, painter, designer, illustrator, multi disciplinary artist, well known for trading of almost 3rd pan african new expressionist art style. combining painting and st. are the ones down i grew up in a household where my grand was domestically abused and i witnessed that a lot as a kid because i was around her all the time. so for me, that was

a very traumatic experience and growing up as a guy understanding that it's a, it's a vicious cycle of uncheck mental health leading to a violent approach that says the cycle. and i think knowing is half the battle. and i wanted to be completely aware of, you know, what genovese funds is and what it's really doing what, what causes it, you know, she passed away because of that. i buried it, you know, and that's what made me such an angry teenager. and that's what made me so like rebellious, like breaking stuff in his angry at the world, you know, and the old i got, the more realize that i'm feeling upset because on my own mental health plus my own childhood traumas. what may me vocalize or be aware of my traumas and pain was making art peeling is painful. it's not the easiest thing in only way to be better is to sit

with those dark thoughts that you don't want to have and process them. and by doing that, you actually become better and better as time progresses. so yeah, the only thing that made me become conscious of that was making i was, i was my work so dark, let me do a fair analysis of myself and then digging deep and being like, oh, this was the reason this is so dark is because this was this is what influenced this approach. okay, cool. why did they influence this approach? while that happened to me when i fixed? okay, cool. makes sense. i don't necessarily think that i just have to make stuff in a bad headspace in order for it to be good. i think society is, is kind of made the narrative of like the priest, drug addict, artist, archetype. you know what i mean? and that's not the truth. anybody can make eyes from any kind of finish alive for a long time. i thought that the only way i make good work is if i'm like in that space about 9 times progressing. i'm just like,

there's so much more to you so much dimension in making work in a better have space and even the press one, you know, i making ideas about evoking emotion with its hate or love, whatever. if someone feels something toward that even frustration you did something you made with all my house hotels shaky off from work that i did a couple years ago was commissioned to do a bunch of portraits. some graffiti is pretty much design the whole 1st floor. it's not like one of my personal projects where i can really focus on emotion or focus on doc themes. this is a commission. so i have to focus on the janice about youth culture and what that means to me and painted in an aesthetic way as opposed to, you know, being wrapped up the brush strokes and emotive. so the difference between this and the camera stuff is all about 2 different themes. one is that x and the other is

the motion. so we're about to hit the kalashnikov gallery to check out some of my work and speak to mc. it's up in the gallery manager. i think he good is good to be back. you know, that's what i made specifically for the show. and in my opinion, it's the best on. thank you. the one i really enjoyed making the one going to kept on is the one that i give because we're based in broad from tang which is effectively one of the creative melting pot to johanna burg. honest lexis would naturally gravitate towards brom because of the, the scene he would just come to the shows we didn't even know who was his associate punk coming to to look at off. and later on we just became closer and closer to some degree. there was some mentorship but

yeah, one day we thought he was actually good enough to be in the gallery and then there is effective history. nice. one of our standing young, emerging artists focal point in a lot of the works is iris. in the past i was very anti painting eyes. i think it revealed too much emotional too much character in each portrait. but i think this time around i wanted to ease eyes as a vehicle to convey how i was feeling. a lot of these are post, you know, heartbreak, you know, it's, it's, it's the conversation about how i and how people around us deal with our feelings and being aware of our feelings and making something about that. these are more extensions on my solo show that i did a in february this year called why so blue, brown boy, that collection was couldn't it's, and she the birth of this conversational body motion, vulnerability,

masculinity wanting to speak about societal norms and societal conversations against men and men's mental health and prove and show that they always for men to deal with emotions in a natural and healthy way as opposed to substance abuse and violence. we can't express ourselves to conversation and wrong ability. so these are extensions all my almost vulnerable sol, for the most intimate parts of myself being displayed are exhibited in i have the read privilege to be backstage of the annual showcase of body. a school of fashion posted this year at the mall of africa, which i think is quite appropriate. i'm sitting here with shepherd who is one of the young designers that will be shepherd. how are the know i have them? but at the same time, i'm a bit excited to finally being here and i'm grateful for the journey bit of

a new believer saying this is me. it was fun. and yeah, all of this is what, in spite the connection that we're going to see tonight, the main drive of the collection was conquered through my august, really being i thought of side to live, to fit it before to put it. yes. what support did you have in creating the connection family and dance, interesting data hughes road and also like this feels developed through the as of study and study or played a huge role in me. being able to present to kind of waken at this level. and you have custom in me because you had me at functionality and comes to village. it means a lot before i had more young design and let's check our kenya, where production and interior designer is changing his environment for the better. my name is david, are you are, i'm a production and special designer. welcome to

a day in my world. my dummy. i've been begun over 10 years ago, mainly inspired by movies and stuff that we watch on tv. really my collaboration with book bon cause b and in how people relate to pieces and how to curious spaces to me to be amused for people where they are comfortable, the constable to read. they're comfortable to spend time in. they are comfortable to engage in different activities. i mean, libraries have so much before being used for just reading and studying and doing research. but now in a place like canada is like library,

where it's an art gallery. you can come in and enjoy art here from different artists who have showcase there at here. you can come and have a picnic here in we are currently in eco loop or a clue. this is there. so lack of veranda didn't exist on pre restoration of this building on the floor that we are standing on exists a map of narrow b that represents the different libraries within the city. so inspired in this space was the idea to have artist and influential individuals look around v. you'll see different intellectual musicians, visual art, spots, men, sports women, different figures in their own respect,

existing wise african can't add to more thought after trend in design. i mean, this is, we're coming back to the motherland mile. this is not like the creed all of mankind . this is where this is where life began. and so i feel like we are coming back home and not only design but in florida for many other fears. of life but here again as one of the space that i've worked on initially from class, for brief, it was meant to be a space for her to just enjoy. she lives with friends and entertain, but also please to just hung up by herself, read a book, enjoying a drink, but it turned out that it now space uses for i assure that she should school to

open up. and so i see what does her sure. here, it's also us, she uses to chill and entertain guests the be how the african aesthetic inspires creativity in, in the field that i am in. i would see just the use of materials, the richness of the cultures, like we have so many different tribes and ways of life in the african context. all that just mixed in this beautiful port of design and and, and way of life really has inspired my jamie vision for the future in my career i, i wanted to so much i, i,

i believe i haven't done my best work really. i think go as long as this breadth inside of me are far from, from even scratching this office of my best walk. and so um the future for me to just more collaborative work. i'd love to collaborate with other artists. love to collaborate with our home interior designer, the special designers for hollywood j come and, and really just be involved in, i'd call them functional squeezes in terms of m. b, a library offices. and just to really be sensitive to how people interact with spaces. oh ah, the night the lights are shining bright from the young creative talent as final

touches have been done before the runway showcasing the talents here a start your school of fashion than by you had a clear idea in your mind what you wanted to showcase here tonight, what is the difficulty of translating that? what is in your head exactly on to the model? sometimes the gum is listed as long as you want them to v o a how you have it in your hands. so that is a very depressing moment ever designed to find out if my city where you wanted or how you wanted to fit, i think. yeah. and i can imagine what the field, because as someone who's been a model before, sometimes you guys get frustrated and you just wanted to be perfect. so how did it all come together for you? because we have to 1st we, i how can i have a big stage? i think that's how i managed to court with the was truth. because once you find out that something about what can use truth, but then because you know how things are out, i think it's nikki. and i have to ask how the new connect. oh i,

i'm with lisa usa with what was the creative concept behind it. when what was the role of styling and all of it? so my concept is based around me finding my identity with in my college and embracing my culture as well because it's something i think it's very difficult and not only for women, but for everyone growing up. so i try to incorporate that a lot in my culture. so, but i did was i used the good the method, which is the quoting method that we used to make blankets back back in india way and the last minute impacted me a lot this year. so i think, oh, great saying no, that's absolutely amazing. and if you know anything about me, you know how much i love bringing back my culture and also just ping home is that people that came before us when it's i'm so excited to see a connection tonight and all the very best

the show is about to start and it only seems appropriate to bring in a fashion voice from nigeria as they are turning. one western fashion is all about on his head. me where a story telling business we use fashion to affect the mind body and the soul of the individual and collective legard. more and more young fashion designers are revolving in their designs, lesser about western influences and style, but a more afrocentric contemporary and experimental. the do of know the black area and if they die, you loop who are sisters, who believe that fashion is storytelling. but that's it. sites in our global realities and home life as nigerian globally. when you think about fashion, i don't think about design as it is. i mean, they're, you know, they're school of thought by my side. so for african fashion that should also be

valid. where it's your design aesthetic is what's my said, whether you're edgy like not black or, you know, communicating all of the influences in any of our we. so here is where the production, the real logic. because all patterns here with a couple of pieces together here, here is where all the experimentation and prototyping you be here. this is partner with these, this is a p, if i need dual pattern until it is done efficiently, cannot leave this room. so literally like if all number of professors go on here, this is sunday and he's a sample machine. this he's working on a top right now is also from this collection. hey, stranger connection. and this is one of our t shirt with their collection. hey, stranger number black introduces rich colors and echoes of the year, but culture, whereas super inside by your back hold, sir. we're both you're by. and of course,

like every other thing that we experience as well as just being global citizens in general, or having just the progressive out from things on progressive perspective. every single collection we make there will be one single piece or 2 pieces that you can draw a straight line, direct me from a heritage, all culture a, b, e, a, you know, rapper or you know, the silhouette. it's like the classic with lots of doing lots of reading. you know, you're super the like to look super flamboyance. i think like some of these color from this collection. very reminiscence of your culture. i feel like the stories are very relevant because when you piece through each one, you see that if di feels it through what we as young people, even on young people, i experience through the times. whether it's so, hey, stranger, which is about solitude on we can all combine on that same we've seen on that,

which is about humans and exploring how work pool of lee is showing. i've seen how those lists come through in many different ways. and you have a look why as well which is about to see about life and death. it's about black and white. it's about, you know, all of that. so we kind of communicate. i feel like everything about black is extremely employed because we do have a lot of quick influences as will. it takes passion and in depth knowledge of one's culture and surroundings to be able to create pieces that are rare yet related will . and constantly changing because, you know, we, forth locally where in nigeria, if you know anything about the supply chain of how african countries most, especially nigeria get their fabric. we basically get the remnants from when the global market, the global fashion markets are done with these. and, and why we can't necessarily, it won't be on trend if you're nigerian brand just forcing from the market unless you're making your own fabric. and so we don't, i built in me,

of these wild creates in our collection. we go from a story perspective and everything feeds the story so to speak. nigerian fashion and styles are becoming distinct, especially when they're adapting the rich cultural and traditional element into the style. none the black or proof that african fashion does not have to follow global fashion trends, but one can always adapt a new way of interpreting design and fashion. oh, i'm a bite to take my place in the audience, and i'd like to wish all the talent the very best, and just have fun with. let's take a moment to unpack what seems like an unusual way to say good bye to a loved one. but it's actually really african and i'm not what our feet up whole bears there bring joy to do. so of grievance

dancing moves asked the curry. the coffin have become a global sensation. your videos have gone viral online is i will go on the thought already know this is to the church or to the cemetery, you know, the family and wall wishes and what that is. they do cry and i fall back. you know, i for side, full upset of why do you cry? so i started to analyze myself in bring in the dance, initiating the dallas jewelry store that, you know, called share them. i've gotten was 15 years ago, one day. a do realize that a solemn, much of full barris was making, i'm already sad event even more sorrowful. so established than the map. what tough we double baron service with dancing truths, like you screwing in popularity, families, i increasingly given their loved ones a final does. ah,

we have an album over here that the client is able to choose form. when is in upper mrs. is going to choose the he or she wants us to way for the location. and i think this week i'm, the client in question has changed a scottish way. those are wired line jaws. this, i thought this course is where is because this course is where i've never been to a fall before. so it's always there for you. you know, i'd be a talk to tom because he's going to be talking to finalize the same time is wrong both with since becoming a global sensation, benjamin aged barely has time to sleep. he spends much of his time on the phone with clients. check in this upcoming book in gagnon funerals are very important social occasion and no expense is great. why abuse wellborn service has also

provided crucial employment opportunities for young people. this bill i was in the mall ah, guys to re employ. i'm which in lobby voice. you know, because unemployment is very high. where i am now. i have over a 100 guys work here which 95. i mean 5 i figure. but you hopefully won't be dancing with this guy any time soon as we are there, you know, i want to dad's radio and, ah, once the corner virus pandemic is over, a do hope to travel and open branches of it's paul bern, business in other countries where people will be able to hire a new style coffin count, says gordon,

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