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

Alright, Trentdad thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

The project i believe to be the most meaningful to myself will have to be my market series by the name of Rock Street Market. The confidence in myself and my dreams it gave me hasn’t been matched by any other project or creation of mine.

I got the idea while a friend and I brainstormed on what we would do to get our start up off the ground, the idea was to create a market to sell at and gather customers. Of course as time went on the project became a lot more than that just because of the different commitments and opportunities. I eventually stopped after the 5th due to wanting to move on to a different set of projects. But what meant the most to me is what it taught me. For the first time ever i was able to see that I could pull a concept with so many different moving parts together with effort. I have an idea of how i want my future to go, and for that multifaceted-ness is a requirement. I believe that being multifaceted is a skill that can be harnessed now. Rock Street Market marks the first time I pulled off a project of that nature and I am looking forward to seeing what else i could accomplish.

Trentdad, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am a multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur. I like to create experiences as much as i like to create art. I got into the creative industry by first starting out taking photos for my school yearbook. After I dropped out of college I begin taking photos of people around my city in hopes in becoming a fashion photographer. From there i would get booked for all types of jobs, and because i wanted the money, i’d say yes to just about anything. From music videos, to proposals, to commercials and etc.

I think what i take pride in is my artistic vision and ability to bring it out even in other peoples projects. I’m not able to explain how I approach projects, but i will say i take images and build with a very specific outcome in mind; That i let my taste and gathered information produce. But at the end of the day, i’m just looking to create something cool.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

I pivot all the time, sometimes i act upon impulse and feeling. Other times I’ll wait and hold steady. The thing is, I don’t concern myself with where life will take me. I don’t think we have to hold ourselves to anything at all, especially if it’s not fulfilling us.

I closed down my market and decided to shift the focus to building a personal brand because i felt like there’s an opportunity in being organized from the front and building out projects from that. If i’m able to have a strong personal brand presence, not only could i run my own markets and hire, but I could also sell and offer those services to other people, or be hired by other teams and entrepreneurs.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

I think creative work and art makes you able to see that things do not always have to have logic behind them. I’m a firm believer in not making sense is okay. Doing things just because and not caring if there’s a reason for it. Sometimes i make art that feels right even if it doesn’t communicate to others what it does to me.

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