We were lucky to catch up with Mecca Hunter recently and have shared our conversation below.

Mecca, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Risking taking is a huge part of most people’s story but too often society overlooks those risks and only focuses on where you are today. Can you talk to us about a risk you’ve taken – it could be a big risk or a small one – but walk us through the backstory.

So I’ve taken many risks in my life but I feel like one of the biggest ones I had taken was leaving my job at Home Depot as a paint mixer. I really held that job tight for a very long time (well to me a year and a half is a long time but you get what I mean). I held it sacred and I thought if I lost my job that would be the end of the world. But then I met my creative clan later down the line and that was the best occurrence that’s ever happened to me because not only did they encourage my craft, they helped walk me through a lot of experiences I I’d thought I never went through. Even though I was nervous, it made me feel confident and courageous in my decisions, my skills and my artwork so before the end of 2020, that’s when I took the leap and ever since then I’ve been through some tumultuous challenges, but in the end, I wouldn’t have learned my way around things for myself if I didn’t take that leap.

Mecca, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I am a self-taught artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, California and have been currently residing in Arizona for a few months now. My business focuses on freelance art and design, which includes paintings, murals, and custom artwork/designs for products to help meet others’ personal and business needs. My focus is to help creatively problem solve any specific task that my clients struggle with as far as getting their point across whether it be on a product, custom piece or a gift where they may be trying to communicate out into the world. They come to me and ask “What do I do? How can I make this happen?” and we put our minds together to come up with a solution on how to visually articulate their idea. That’s exactly what I’m there to do. What sets me apart from others is that I am not afraid to try out new things. For example, it could be things that I’ve never painted before like different landscapes, everyday objects from life that can surprisingly give us a glamorous effect or something out of the ordinary, like a custom piece you would you wouldn’t expect to see in your house like a door. One of the current projects I’m working on is a series called Buns and Bliffin, where I invite a team of artists that help me bring this vision together of bringing love and peace through unity amongst everyone across the world. The series focuses on an alien and a rabbit living through their adventures across the world, while telling their stories on a spiritual aspect. I feel language barriers are a current struggle in which we go through every day, so I just want to use the series as a way to connect with the hearts of others on a global scale.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

So within this daily fight against the common person everybody wants you to be in today’s society I am constantly fighting to hold onto this passion. This dream of being an artist and running with it was just something I couldn’t let go of. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve been forced to be someone i’m not but art has always been there to pull me out of that hole and help me remember who I am. When it came to growing up and dealing with every day societal distraction, I’d always practice my skills as a tool to help me focus and stay grounded with who I want to be. And even now as an adult I struggle with holding onto that passion but it still lives within me. It’s a love that I hold dear to me in my heart and every day I remember constantly why I worked so hard to keep it. I would say it’s a path that leads to a place where I can go to find peace within myself amongst the chaos that lives within this world. I’ve found great happiness and joy in helping others find happiness in their lives, and how it can be used as a tool to help share and communicate similar interests amongst others.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

A lesson that I had to unlearn was trying to please other people. In my journey of growing up and using my art as a tool to get peoples attention and impress them, for a while it felt nice to have their eyes for a while, but growing up now in a society where is so hard to catch peoples attention for only a few seconds AND expect a positive reaction taught me that there’s not really a point in trying to meet the expectations of others when I don’t even know what their expectations are. If I make art that resonates with a specific person, that’s all that matters to me. I’ve seen it before I have made art that I thought would get peoples attention, and that was totally the wrong direction to go so instead I had focused on making art that helped bring something out of me, whether it be a lesson or pure enjoyment, and if that art impacts someone else’s life for the best, then I’ve done my part.    

Contact Info:

• Website: suplexity.com
• Instagram: @su.plex
• Facebook: Suplexity Studios
• Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/mecca-hunter-a6b8a123b
• Twitter: @suplexitystudio

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