Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Chase Granberry. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Alright, Chase thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Do you have an agent or someone (or a team) that helps you secure opportunities and compensation for your creative work? How did you meet you, why did you decide to work with them, why do you think they decided to work with you?
I currently do not have an agent or anyone that helps me with my decisions. Since 2017, I have been working entirely with my own hands through the ups and downs of life. If you are reading this and would like to contribute, you can email me which is down below. There we will talk more business. That is if you are serious. If you are a venture capitalist, its high risk, high reward.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I was born on 9.11. The year before the one you’re thinking about. So my first memory is 9.11. I’ve been creating things all my life as a means to express myself. Since I can remember I’ve always had a knack for drawing in particular. I would always draw cars, flowers, wildlife and recreate logo’s I’ve seen from observing the world. Painting caught my attention a few years ago and while it was fun, I found myself digitally drawing instead. Nowadays, I continue to draw all sorts of wildlife and logos for Instagram. I have created a brand named CODED as a way to identify myself between others. My brand stands to acknowledge the similarities we as humans have in our waking life. From life to the grey area in between and finally death. We all go through similar experiences in that grey area and I’m here to show you what it’s like to prosper through existence.
Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?
I think others struggle to understand what it is that I’m actually showing. I haven’t dove deep into what I will be getting into, so for now it seems like a look book of experiences. I’m showing you that these “regular” occurrences in Cleveland, Ohio may seem extremely ordinary. And to the people that live here, it is. To the ones who don’t, they see the world from a new set of eyes. As I gain more traction, the full scope of my idea will come to fruition. But for now, it is literally a digital viewfinder. And once you flip the view; it’s an entirely different vision. An everlasting time capsule.
: Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
My mission is to bring light to our individuality and bring us back to reality. With the internet evolving and humans becoming closer to our electronics, I feel like our generation is losing touch with what makes us human. I want to show that social media in itself can be a detrimental to our mind & spirit. But, at the same time it is a tool to widen your horizon. Use social media to show the world that you are one of a kind.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chxsen11/
- Other: https://linktr.ee/CHXSEN11
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