We were lucky to catch up with Jean-Pierre Verdijo recently and have shared our conversation below.
Jean-Pierre , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?
Choosing to make art your profession is perhaps the most rewarding and risky decision a person can make.
To me it feels essential to live true to my deepest desire. To model that to my children and community.
All choices in life come with sacrifice, there can be an illusion that if we choose something close to our heart that can be avoided.
The risk that come out of my choice to pursue the arts is my war to fight or my routine to dance.
The attitude I choose around risk management and the consequences is key to creating a nurturing inner environment to norish my practice.
Which is my dream realized.
Jean-Pierre , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
As an artist, I specialize in three disciplines I paint paintings, I create mixed media works often utilizing photographs, and text some might call it collage, and I work in photography by printing on translucent materials and ad hearing it to mirror, which has its own stunning reveal.
I create for myself as an exploration of life. It’s soothes me psychologically., it feeds me physically, and it is an outpouring of my spirit. I receive so much in the act of art making.
However, I love creating custom work because I believe that people deserve handmade goods that have messages or colors or are created with compositions that are meaningful for them.. It is my pleasure and honor to work with clients to bring for their desires and ideas to life.
Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?
Personally I don’t put any value or effort into NFT’s or AI or whatever the next trend of chasing the dream of capitalism is.
I see the people who prioritize these things in the life and I never want to be like them.
It’s my job to stay attuned to my sources of inspiration, and listen for what needs to be expressed to create a more harmonious, loving and supportive world.
To that effect not only do not seek to make NFT’s I don’t even make prints of my work. They don’t feel real to me. A wood panel that I have poured hours of work into carries something of me. This is the way.
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
My goal is to effect change in human consciousness.
I use the power of love to make living an art form.
All my work, whether it be sensual, political design oriented is all words the same aim.
To expose and celebrate the human experience with a record of aesthetic effort.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: artofjeanpierre
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- Other: I appreciate yall
Image Credits
Photo of me is by Mars