zero five three seven four three four two today mosaic information technologies offers all inclusive services for your business computer and networking needs located at forty one nickel street mosaic i t can help maximize your green the show this week's changes show was produced and recorded by students in the vancouver island university media studies department  to the changes segment in c h o y radio show my name is cameron from robin davies class and i have with me a student who is getting his theater diploma from alive and well and so if you matter where i go in the world and in life i'll always be able to be near a theater that i can join or help out with how you see things have changed in and i'm in the past twenty years like what's different now compared  to you know what things were back then earth is definitely more accepted and out there there's more public art installations which we need even even five years ago downtown especially so they're having more public performs his own open spaces where there's more experimental art being placed out on display instead of being kept in artist's studio or gallery and so that's what is most the change that i see even in my nd just seeing the variety is really refreshing because when i was in high school and i went to take shows in the port theatre and places like that it was still fairly basic like the nut cracker was the nut cracker like same step started out of that all last year i went and saw the not cracker and from it was real winnipeg ballet of i'm not mistaken the motive in vancouver and pressure country's art scene is what really excites me would you say that ties well partially to the way things have changed in the way things are becoming more open would you say that that's more because of a social change in a sense like would you say it's because of the time or would you say it's more because of people in the city there's more youth rising you know more local talent emerging in terms of musical acts or a for instance there's so many more musical acts from this town now than there was you know twenty years ago at least you know more popular great you know ego down and you see you know every week it's a different band playing right into the same sound different places over a especially when it comes to music when i go downtown and i'm just walking there's so many are posters for young people's bands and deejays and concerts and little vents of select small audience events all every year at the you that campus there tell us about that experience oh my didn't know what to expect it was my first time doing that kind of thing but the response of my work was amazing and very positive it was really like an encouraging experience i'm like ok yes we're supposed to be doing oh awesome where did you think this is this is what i want to do what was it like a gradual thing that happened over time is what two years ago there really started to do on the kind of stuff that i'm doing right now and to figure out how to get it out in the world when i was a kid i started drawing a lot as a child and then in high school in my art class we did a section on sculpture and i was just like oh my gosh like the medium i want to do i made a lot of little creatures that's of how i got into the sculpture and yeah just go two years ago it was when i really making wearable stuff and costume pieces i graduated last year in the summer and i got to try out a whole bunch of other different tools and mediums are so that was really cool as well so how long would you say you've been interested in art as it's been something that happened a couple years ago or who has it been your whole life it's been my whole life basically honestly caring bridge time i wasn't like drawing or making things occur only it took me a few months to come up with an artist and business name of sorts but i finally chose botanical beast the two years ago when i will decide what to do with the cost do stuff because it's really relevant to my art i like to draw and make creatures and on the costumes side of things i really love mythology and stuff like that so my accessories are like horns allergies wings ears tails that kind of stuff and on the other side of it the i have like a huge interest in plants in nature so on a lot of floral crowns and flora had bounce and stuff like that and i combine a lot of the stuff to like make creatures of plants like growing out of them and stuff like that  cool what was the first thing you created draw a lot as a child but the actual first sculpture i made was back in high school i made a small colorful little dragon and that just sparked my interest in sculpture like so much i was like oh my goodness i love sculpture  established art scene there that they're actually staying in and i'm now and china like really good people still can art and more stuff like that happening here and i've seen been seeing more group shows and solo shows happening like places like the fall which is a coffee shop downtown on like they have our shows there all the time and also the electric umbrella it's a tattoo shop they have like shows there for artists and then another place that it's really cool iron oxide that just opened up not super long ago have like a local place to get our supplies rather than like the big box stores or whatever which was the only thing we had before and also iron oxide now they're doing shows there to promote artists so i think that's great as well what would you say to younger people looking to get into art i think that i would like to encourage everyone to get more into doing art stuff like even nowadays i notice things like adult coloring books are getting more popular and like our therapy is a real thing of like it's great everyone can be creative but if you want to be successful and make a living out of it we're going to have to be like extremely determined and work hard at it there's tons of trial and error in finding out what sells unlike what people actually want to buy and even figuring out like supplies of price points of stuff like that right now i currently just do it on the side and i do work i do a job in retail because i need to find a way to support myself while i'm trying to work on my dream hopefully one day maybe i'll be able to support myself i just know our stuff also a great tool for people younger people looking to get serious about their our stuff is social media like that stuff is so popular these days things just buy it online yeah most of the time i'd just rather be in the studio than trying to take pictures of put them online but it's the greatest tool these days the art out there is there's something you know now that you wish you knew back when you were getting started oh yeah i do kind of what i shall i was more focused on actually working on stuff and learning new skills but honestly it's good to have a balance with that kind of stuff like me to find time to relax and friends and family you do commissions write costumes and her pieces could you explain yeah so i figured since i enjoy sculpture so much because taking an idea and making it into the three d like physical objects is just like such an amazing concept to me to take something from my mind and make it into something that people can hold and look at and also that would appeal to a larger crowd that a lot of people are actually interested in fast fantasy costume pieces to cause play like a certain character or that is the photo shoots things like about some festivals like a lot of people want custom pieces or that kind of stuff i like making a lot of my own concepts ideas designs of putting it out there but if people if maybe they see something i make and they want to in a different color or they have some idea then they can contact me and only make it to them and the stuff i make is just i really high quality it's not just like whatever you would find in like a halloween store and yeah it's really cool moving more into costume stuff it's just adds another dimension to the sculpture stuff i've been expanding my skill set like a whole ton like i've been selling a whole bunch more right now and adding that it's like a sculpture but now the other factor i have to put in is it has to be wearable and it has to be comfortable for someone so that's a really cool to do well that about does it for certainly with this fairly state needed a little bit more activity up on the hill and you're ill but because of it's spread out nature we haven't been able to do that to the real stuff you know the real modern style more mormon john and exploring performance art conceptual art we're kind of our group it's kind of conceptual art kind of performance art as well and this is getting to range of expertise already here already practiced already already doing short films than i once scripting stuff like that so it's going to get better but it has been a long time where what happened