TWO CONSULTATIONS IN ONE WEEK.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (Self-Portrait), 1982

SIMILAR CONVERSATIONS BUT BOTH HIGHLY ENLIGHTENING…as the Consultant.

LESSONS

Never underestimate the need to be heard and the feeling of connection.

Two consultations this past week and upon review and assessment, l've come to the conclusion that I limit my own self sometimes. I limit myself by thinking I need to be seen or heard. Sometimes we get in our own way of creating when trying to create to appeal...when what we really need to do is to create for ourselves.

Learn to create for yourself. Take yourself out of the commercial, corporate and capitalist mindset of doing for money and do your thing by creating to express yourself. Create to manifest the version of yourself you want to become. Create to not only communicate but to also grow.

We lack adequate development sometimes because we're only facilitating growth as defined and directed by our environments. True growth-the catalyst to true powerful impactful growth-comes from making the decision to change and change in the way of refusing all that is and has become normalized within our families, friendships and communities. Question who you are and what you have done and test the waters in doing things different than the regular scheduled programs.

When you "do"—when you act for change--act for yourself and NOT for others. Truly, it will always be others that after yourself will serve as your most difficult obstacles yet powerful lessons.

—Liam lan

*Fact is that some can actually produce with an intent and pursuit for some financial gain taking on the agendas or commissions of others but then there those who rely on pure mental and emotional inspiration. It’s not my advice to not create or produce for profit but there’s much ore value in those works that represent a moment, perspective, or experience that fuel the creative process.

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CONNECTED: TWO CONSULTATIONS IN ONE WEEK.

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PERSPECTIVE

FURTHER INSPIRED BY VIRGIL ABLOH…and so many others.

With 2024 fast approaching, we’re looking to reposition to become a better business operation catering to a more refined yet still diverse audience. Strategically, we want to offer products and services that truly add value and substance to our customers and clients. We’re strive to redefine what is to be of influence and impact for tomorrow. While Art, Design and Photography are the core of who and what we are, we’re moving much more into technologies in Ai Art Generation and Animation paving the way info dynamic storytelling. What might be the normal everyday for someone else, we’re changing the perspective of life to be like art. We are Art!

Beginning within the 2024 Arts Quarter, we’re developing projects and products that embody and symbolize who I am—who we are—within the African American communities with the hope of acting as signals of the potential of our collective futures. LIAM IAN will be using the opportunities to create to move further and further into setting the stage to introduce the necessities of a progressive life for People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture.

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As I further my journey into the discovery and development of my Artistry, my Artistic Capabilities and the Style that would become my Signature, I’m informed and encouraged to also delve deep into who I am as a Black Man and Artist who’s endured and survived much. The light and the dark. The good and the bad. The dualities of who I am and the dichotomy of my life. Reducing it all down; “The Dichotomy of…LIAM IAN.” As my Spirituality inspires me, it inspires my Art. I am the product of years of detriment and deprivation. Death and cultural deterioration. In having come out resilient from being abandoned and cast aside and fatherless, I continue to discover, reveal and establish who I am within and amongst this world. —LIAM IAN

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CONNECTED - PERSONAL NOTES OF LIAM IAN BLACK - © 2023 Liam Ian (LIAM IAN LLC)