September 5th 2016
Narrator: Steven L. Anderson
Exhibition
Location: Global
Sounds by: DJ Taja and DJ Supermarkt
Q: What the hell is this Dreamer Dark kNight thing you doing?
A: It is a showcase I will be presenting with a new body of work I have been creating throughout my time of moving from Sotuhside Atlanta (Riverdale) to East Atlanta (Decatur). This will be a exhibit that everyone will be able to see. I mean everyone, even you!
Q: What's up with the tape on the wings, are these like angels or something?
The Light, a piece that will be apart of the showcasing on September 1, 2016
A: [Laughs], nah they actually not angel wings. Funny thing is when people check it out they all think their Angels. Which I enjoy people thinking that since I do believe angels are watching over me. Definitely my grandmother. But the tape wings are a follow up from some shit I did in high school. I use to paint puppets with TV's and scissors on them and chase around kids cutting off their wings. So it's like a follow up with it. These same dreamer kids are taping back on their wings and still working towards what they see. The God vision they seen when they was younger....and it represent me. I tape my wings back on through the dark nights I have to face and conquer.
Q: What is with you obsession with women? Do you ever create males or you think you'll be called gay?
A: [Laughs], nah I have no fear of being called gay. Actually very comfortable with my sexuality. I love my gay people that are happily living. I actually have gay friends and family. That shit doesn't bother me. However, I do truly love and appreciate women for everything! From there intellectual ways to the bodies they were blessed with. I was raised by Queens, and being raised by them made me realize a strong beautiful woman. I mean women are wise, if you treat them how they are suppose to be treated and actually listen to them. Shit I can go all day about man.
Q: Wait, are these real women you talking about in your art?
"Noir the Angel", a piece that will be apart of the showcasing
A: Yeah, everything I create is about real life shit. Everything. So the women you may come across are real women I have met. Like one lady I met came in during my dark hours of losing my job and was freaking out and she came in teaching me like crazy faith and shit. Like this is another reason for my appreciation for women. Everyone of them come in teaching me shit I need.
Q: [someone was flipping through my books of poetry] So you write? Are you like a music artist? Damn, didn't know T !
A: [Laughs] Nah man, I'm no music artist, even though I do appreciate the art of music and the people that does it. But I have no interest in that, I just write to connect it more with my work and to express some shit I possible can not paint or draw out.
Q: Why the hell your pants so dirty ?
A: [Laughs] I'm a working artist, and I am always working. I want to be and am going to be the greatest !
Pieces that will be apart of exhibition, Dreamer through the Dark kNights.
Q: What has been your darkest dreams Mr. T?
A: It would have to be when I lost my job and I thought everything was shattering. It was difficult to find a job and I start thinking, like.... damn, what if I have to go back sleeping in my car. Them dreams felt so unreal, wondering how the hell will I eat today, or how the hell am I going to pay his bill or that bill. Man I can say them were the dark dreams I had to face. Them were the dark knights. Than plus the darkest dream was will I be able to achieve the dream of reaching the world with my message, with my art, with my passion. Ya know? All that shit hit me harder during this time. But during those dark dreams I was learning new shit about me. Made me realize what I have already been through and how this is nothing, that I can truly get through this. Ya know? Anything you place your faith into you can truly get through. And man, my faith in God helped me through a lot of the bullshit people would never expect for me go through.
Q: Are you in school?
A: No, I did attend school for like a year than decided to drop out. Which it was after a situation and plus all my time was going to galleries or going to artist studios and learn from them. Or maybe I was in the design room at my school working on designs for myself or for different companies. MY head wasn't in the school books to much, I would pick them up and just read on my own time a lot. I still was getting ok grades but not the best of them. Just didn't really care for it, which does not mean you don't attend school though. Never do I knock anyone going to school. So go if you feel it is right for you.