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

Scott, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us 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.

I work in a few different mediums. Each has its own sets of technique and craft. What I enjoy in lets say acting is that it’s so nuanced and evolving for each character you play. For example breath work in acting can fall into craft and that is so important for an actor weather on stage or in front of a camera because it can help inform the actor on their choices. It can free you up in a manner that allows you to maybe understand the character you’re playing in a different way. Craft in photography maybe is a little different but I believe it taps into intuition and instincts.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Well talking about myself isn’t an area that I have all figured out just yet. I think my goals have always been secondary to my actions. I’ve usually just felt something deep inside myself and then just showed up and done the work to the best of my abilities at that time. So I guess what I’m trying to say is it isn’t really about branding for me or whatever that means when talking about myself, it’s more about finding myself interested in what I’m doing and also giving myself the flexibility to move from one medium to another. With acting, I didn’t know how or where to explore my desire to do it because I was always so scared of doing it wrong. Same holds true with photography. My only constant in the arts has always been about writing poems and a desire to create. Poems for example gave me a voice early in my life that I didn’t know I had. Exploring that lead me to acting and eventually to do stuff Off-Broadway in a play called WOUNDED in December, 2018. Also, these last few years I have been really fortunate enough to work on some great indie films. A Wedding Day, is a recent film that is making its rounds in the festival circuit and winning some really fun awards. I’m really proud I was apart of that. Coming up, I just finished a film that will be out next year and getting ready to put out a zine with a group of three other local LA photographers. Other than that I have some works of poems and photos up in Hollywood at a place called Photo Impact Gallery and I will also be doing another photo show I think sometime in February of 2024.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Doing the work and seeing it being shared with an audience allows me to face my own fears and insecurities. In all my areas in the arts I have always found that doing the thing in front of you isn’t always the hardest, What is challenging at least for me is accepting that putting my work out into the world means it’s no longer really yours and its open to criticism or praise. And I just gotta be good with that either way. But in knowing that I also hope to grow from finishing one project and applying to the next which in itself is very rewarding for me.

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

I don’t really now how to be an artist. I think the word is so big and general like love. So if I don’t know how to do something but I keep on pursuing it then the thing I’m doing is informing me of something much deeper inside myself. Maybe it spiritual, and maybe that speaks in a language that has resiliency at its foundation.

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