We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Alexander Cantrell. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Alexander below.

Alexander, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

My name is Alexander V Cantrell and
I got into acting through watching movies. Realized at 10 years old or so, that acting is a real job. People hire you to memorize words, fly you out to some place where you have no idea what’s to come and you get paid to go there and play with other people who have other words memorized. It’s awesome!
I write as well.
I got into writing after listening to audiobooks and realized there’s a lot of bad books that are top sellers. So why can’t I write my own bad book and sell it? I’m not published yet but it’s coming soon.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I am also a meditation guide.
I got into meditation in 2018. Here I think I can talk a bit about my brand/ work that I consider most important to me and that (I think) helps me stand out. I enjoy the process of getting to know myself and my total experience of life. That’s what meditation is all about and I enjoy guiding people into their own investigation of their moment to moment experience of life.

In Alice in wonderland, there’s a caterpillar that asks Alice the famous question; who are you? Do you know who you are? I find that I don’t know who or what I am. I discover new things about myself almost every day. That I think is my drive, my mission. To discover as much of myself as I can in the time that is given to me. If I inspire others along the way, excellent! If not, it was a great ride all the same.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

I have found that I limit myself through fear. I limit my experience, my exploration, my expression, all through fear. Being a creative is all about looking fear in the face and witnessing the beauty in it. Witnessing yourself in the core of your own fear. To sum it up, J. Cole said, “Being an artist that’s the best excuse for being crazy.”

I get the freedom to express myself in ways that society doesn’t necessarily find appealing in any other way than in art. Freedom. That’s my reward.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://www.alexandervcantrell.com/
• Instagram: Ayecantrell

Image Credits
Brandon Hayden & Dre Montana