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

Hi DEUCEFROZE, thanks for joining us today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?

Everyone wants to be able to live through doing what they love. With being an artist and trying to make money as being an artist for me is like putting together a puzzle. As a creative you want to make everything do well-thought out. I wouldn’t consider myself a perfectionist. But I do want what I make and how I present what I make to be tasteful. Art without good presentation is like pearls amongst swine. Not many will perceive the value. So continously strategizing on where I can position myself to where I am valued. And in order to be valued you have to provide value. Even that I want to be unique. How I provide value to others. I currently have a job and I’m thankful for it. But I know God has blessed me with the capacity to blaze a trail where no one else would think to go. And I always feel like haven’t done enough simply because I know there is so much more needed to be done. Having a job is consistent money yes. But someone else had an idea to make the company that provided this job. Who is anyone to say that I can’t architect a company as impactful as Apple or Nike. And Lord willing have a fruitful structure to pass to the next generations of my family. A sustainable system.

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 Simeon Aston Covell Walker aka DeuceFroze. I am a starving artist with meals in my head. I like my coffee black as could be. Side note: black coffee is also referred to as “drip”. When I say I’m an artist I architect in many things. Photography, videography, ink drawing, poetry, writing, music, fashion etc.
Some may see being a jack of all trades as a hindrance but I think the way the world is going its good to know a little bit about a lot of things. It’s too easy to access everything for you to not know anything.
And learning new things opens your eyes to the way things work. The principals of different disciplines tend to overlap if you are able to abstract the poetry from it.
Currently I am working on a project called VELLOVISION. I can’t tell you too much details right now but it’s going to be something different.

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?

First off I think everyone is a creative in some way, shape or form. Or if not creative, imaginative. The difference between someone who claims to be a creative versus someone who says that they aren’t may be the acknowledgement of the reflection of yourself in what you create if you put your hand to create something. Or you don’t recognize the value of the way you think. When you decide to make something and complete it, experiencing what you’ve produced brings satisfaction. Also knowing what it took to bring it into existence. And it’s not like new elements were needed to create the thing. You gathered the necessary material to conceptualize something that only you could do. And when you see that you can do it once you start to wonder “what else am I capable of creating?”. And it’s hard to stop that feeling when you know you can materialize what is in your mind into the physical world. But an idea is just an idea until you nurture it. It almost feels like it grows out of your mind. Sometimes I joke around and say the things I make are my children. I don’t have any kids of my own yet. My work is the closest thing.

Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?

I know the most important cannon of literature is the bible. The contents open my eyes everyday about myself, the nature of humanity, the nature of God and much more. It’s a dangerous book which makes sense why it’s referred to as “The Sword”. Seeing how controversial of a thing it is I would think more people would want to read it. And a lot of people that say that they know what’s in it, don’t. A lot of people don’t read anything they don’t see on a screen. I love to read and it’s rare to find a serious book that doesn’t have a biblical reference or allegory in it. God made creative creatures. It is by design that we can design. And we can’t create more without creating together.

Image Credits
VelloVision