We recently connected with Facy Sedated and have shared our conversation below.

Facy, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

It is a little difficult to define the exact moment in which I decided that I wanted to dedicate my life to art because it was not really a decision that I took, it was not something that I decided. I have lived all my life in Mexico, living from art in a Latin American country is not usually seen as an intelligent decision, it is often said jokingly that deciding to be an artist is equivalent to starving to death.

But in my case, I grew up in a family of artists, my parents and my older brother are dedicated to the audiovisual arts, during my childhood all the memories I have are of our home full of works of my father, mountains of notebooks with the writings and songs of my older brother, financially we always had a somewhat unstable life, there were good and bad times, but that did not matter because my parents always instilled in my brother and me that what mattered most was to express themselves and create.

I never imagined myself being a doctor, being a lawyer, I always wanted to be able to create, my parents gave me blank notebooks every week for me to draw and that’s what I did. Although the drawings were not the best haha I always wanted to express something with them, at the age of 11 years old I was supposed to continue with my high school studies but my parents gave me the option to leave school and study graphic design, I did that and started working with my father, at my 11 years old haha.

I really don’t think I made the decision to be an artist, I don’t think artists make that decision, I really think that art, life makes that decision for us. Creating and expressing is a human need, not a decision.

Facy, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

For people who don’t know me or my work, I introduce myself, I’m Facy and I’m a 3D artist from Guadalajara/Mexico. My art, although it is very varied, is specially focused on the creation of 3d characters and environments that tell stories, I have always seen my works as imaginary friends that accompany me in my days.

I try to express in each of my works emotions through body language, what I love to do in life is to feel because I really believe that no emotion is bad no matter how painful it can be sometimes, I usually express in my works emotions such as nostalgia for worlds we never knew, melancholy and magic.

I started in the visual art industry and 3d in 2020 after the pandemic came to our lives, before that I dedicated my life to music production, I made electronic music and play music in different places in mexico. when the pandemic arrived I took my interest in visual art because I felt a huge need to express myself since verbal language has never been my greatest quality,

I sought to express myself through colors, thanks to my countless hours watching instagram I found the work of 3d artists such as: Aeforia, klarens and polygon1993 among others. They inspired me to such a level that I challenged myself to study 3d in a self-taught way and in a few months I started to upload my own works to instagram which caused me insecurity but I have always believed that art and knowledge should be shared, we are not the owners of it, it should be for everyone.

Then came the Nfts fever and I started uploading and selling my animations on websites like Foundation.app which, to my surprise, was very well received by collectors and artists from all over the world.

thanks to that I was sought after by international artists like Grimes and I have worked creating custom works and animations for artists like: Bring me the horizon, Artbat, Melanie martinez, Hoshikuma minami, guiosepe guilardi among others.

My life took a 180 degree turn from one moment to another, I never imagined dedicating my life to create art that will be seen by thousands of people and to be able to share and learn from artists that I admire a lot. Visual art gave me the opportunity to live to create and express what I consider the greatest gift that life could give me.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I believe that something that all artists share, or the majority of the world’s artists, is that we seek to convert what we see with our eyes into something different. We live in a world in which creating is an act of revolution because it seems that human beings constantly seek to destroy themselves and harm others, we see everyone as competition, as a product, we see what others have and we do not. The whole system is built in such a way that we always feel incomplete.

I grew up in a culture that feels that it does not deserve anything good, that feels and believes that it must earn everything by trying three times harder than others do, it is curious how in the culture of my country we are taught unconsciously that we were conquered, that our ancestors were beasts and animals that needed to be domesticated.
that feeling of being inferior is something that lasts until today in our unconscious. why do I mention this?
I think it is important to mention this to have an idea of how an artist thinks in this side of the world, we constantly believe that our work is not worth it when we compare it with that of others, no matter how good our work is we think it does not deserve to have the exposure or recognition, it is a collective insecurity.

As an artist I have had to deal not only with the barriers that the world has, I have had to deal with my own insecurities, with that feeling of inferiority that I mentioned before, with the impostor syndrome as I like to call it. All my life I saw my father, who I consider a genius, and my older brother, who I consider the greatest artist in the family or in the world, be used and despised as artists and it is something that instead of discouraging me gave me a lot of strength, because they made me see that art is not about the successes we have, about world recognition, art is what accompanies us in that process, art is the eyes with which we see the world around us, art is in those nights of loneliness and anxiety, it is our life partner, our best friend and sometimes it is as cruel as your worst enemy.

Life is precious in all its forms and if there is one thing I have learned during my life it is that we are here to feel, learn and share what we have learned.

Having all those limitations or insecurities made me realize that the most important thing for me is to create and share emotions, regardless of the result, because art is like love… when you give love you expect other people to receive that love just as you gave it, but it is not like that… people understand your love in a different way, they understand it in their way of perceiving the world, it is like a broken telephone, but the one who really feels that love, just as you gave it, the one who really feels that pure and real love, is you, because it comes from you. When you give love, the one who really receives that gift is yourself.

When you create art, the one who really enjoys and lives that creation is you, it is a gift for you.

Of course… every artist wants their work to be seen and experienced by others, but that… is a plus, it is a consequence of living to create. But I think that should be the journey, not the destination.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

that’s a very good question! I really believe that more than a change or something that people can do to support artists more, I feel that the problem is that we have forgotten, generally speaking, what all humans have forgotten is that art is not just a decorative painting, it is not just about decorating the environment, art has been expressed in so many ways throughout human history, with art began language, the transmission of ideas to others, through drawings on walls, humans are who they are now thanks to art, because it helped us transmit knowledge to future generations, art helps us get to know ourselves constantly, for example … music, not only makes us liven up a moment … music is a language that expresses and understands emotions a thousand times more complex than we could sometimes express with words, it makes us realize that we are not limited to feeling or thinking only with our brain, we can think in a freer language and without limitations, it helps us stop being just skin and become part of our environment, to be one with everything that surrounds us.

I also believe that as creatives we need to understand that we are not competition, all of us who decide to dedicate our lives to creating have more in common than we could imagine, many of us were children who spent hours in our rooms trying to understand the world around us, a truly crazy and hostile world. We all find refuge, home in the idea of ​​creating and sharing, what greater act of love than that?

and in love there can be no ego or competition.

making art is about sharing, not taking away.

I think it is very important that everyone in general, artists and people who are not (although I believe that we all create art in different ways)

keep in mind that we are all within a solitary sphere surrounded by darkness, that no one really knows why we are here and where we are going, because on this journey we are all together and the best way to understand each other is through art, because with art we free ourselves from the prisons that are in our brain, in our body. Art doesn’t need to make sense, art is not tied to the ground and it helps us to step out of this blue sphere for a moment and see everything from above. I really believe that art is the way we can understand or feel… who we really are.

If we all understood that, I think there would be no reason to ask this question :)

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/facysedated.art/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@facysedated
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