We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ernesto Equis a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Ernesto, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. 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.
Sacrifice.
I gave everything up, everything as I knew it and I didn’t even know it. The sacrifice was one of the subconcious. Through a focus I hadn’t known before, I lost everything, and gained a great deal.
The last several years have been amazingly developmental, and I’m truly grateful for where I am; and the path that it’s taken to get here, from there.
Adapting to Life’s uncertainties, spontaneously and out of survival, has served to be the quintessential skill that’s afforded me the opportunities to embark on such creative ventures. Gratitude is the recurring resonance.
Retrospectively, the only obstacle that ever stood in the way was myself; and it wasn’t until I started doing some work on my self, that barriers began to break.
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 background and context?
In the spring of 2020, I decided I had plenty. A 13 year tenure in the restaurant business had come to a screeching halt.
The stillness of the world’s crash had then afforded me the clarity to see, that I didn’t want to be where I was at anymore. What started off as an excursion into the culinary arts, was ending as something far greater than that.
Within the course of 3 to 6 months, I invested in several cameras, a couple of sewing machines, and a 4 color press.
To little clue did I have of the effects, the actions therein would beget upon the self.
The common seal of all cities:
The pursuit of happiness; the truth of suffering; the law of uncertainty.
While I may showcase and present selected works of what I feel is my personal art, I’m simply creating with what I have before me; be them tangible materials, video footage, or raw human emotion.
Living, Breathing, and Dying; and everything in between.
With our craft, we trust to evoke a spontaneous feeling of life, and all that entails.
The realization of the significance of our existence.
Where we’re at, and where we’re going.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
The succeeding winter was particularly cold, in more respect than literal.
Evicted, forced to find new housing, and a new way to live.
Building what we started was the move, and there was no going back.
Set to survive beyond existence, determined to trust through action, in process, we created A Seal of All Cities.
Based upon a common foundation; The Wheel Of Life.
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
The Goal is The Journey; The Mission, The Path.
The Ripples made in 2020 offered waves that since have landed overseas.
We wish to keep riding such avenues to see where they lead.
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