That’s a really beautiful sentiment to add to that. I feel like you’re constantly working with new materials or in different ways. What are some of your current obsessions right now?
Obsession… Oooh, that’s a really good question! I’m constantly obsessed with something. It’s not necessarily like a medium, but more so about color. I think right now it’s the color purple. I’m absolutely obsessed with it. I know that not everybody likes it, but I still think that it looks so good with red. It looks so good with blue. And I don’t know if that’s just me, like being delusional, thinking that it is everything. And I also really love yellow, too. So I’m kind of obsessed with that and want to do more.
Are there certain colors that you always find yourself coming back to?
I feel like it sounds so basic, but I always love the primary colors red, yellow, blue. I think they’re the foundation of everything. Even with just those three colors, they are really strong. For one of my projects not too long ago, I was looking at sapeurs, which are Congolese dandies, and their rule of dressing is that you don’t wear any more than three colors at a time. I really like that, and I was thinking that maybe I could apply that in my painting. Maybe focus on red and then have black and other colors complement it. And working in the same way that Congolese people dress. Also, Congolese people love the colors red, yellow, and blue. It’s a flag thing. Yeah, I really love those colors. I think red probably the most out of those three because it’s just so layered. It has so many different meanings. To some, it is the very obvious: love. To others, it is anger. It has so much range in one color. So I think that’s why I love it the most.
