I'm a visual artist. I work at Gass House from Gass House and my studio is in New Town with the Back Factory. I've been working at the profession of artists for nearly five years now. In another term, to minimize the resources, I still be able to do what I have to do, I have to think and be a pro-wise. In fact, initially I was cutting paper directly from magazines, cardipits and used them to build a good chance. Now, I try to learn to paint every day. So doing a mixed color on paper, they can be work as my parents while I'm painting. So when I'm not painting, I have to go through that trash. It becomes another source of material to create art. Basically, my project and mixed media work is, for example, the painting process, whether it's what it's today. It's actually a very interesting space, I feel, you can see it's so huge, you can work on any size of work without being restricted by the size of what you can create and what you can be in this space. I always say that the Back Factory was the best thing that has ever happened to me. As a space, the community of people there, artists of all different studios or experience. Part of the reason is my motivation being at Agas House is again a setup of a community because since I've benefited from that community, I've been able to benefit from a community of other failed artists. And I share what I have, I share what they have. We are supposed to grow from feeding each other, not only to create art, but how to go out there, how to create the world, how to make out what meaning could be the world and not just creating that. I believe my work is based on my personal history and the experiences I've gone through in what I see other people going through. That's the core element of my work, what I'm trying to communicate with my work. It's not enough to just communicate with it. If you communicate with your work and talk about issues and the community response, that's not the end of the story. You have a great message with your work about the ordinary person you want to become a voice for, but they actually don't understand it. First of all, they don't know they're good at it, they don't know about how do you bridge that. And I feel that is the disconnect that exists between the world and the real world. Because the real world is a closed circuit of the informed and the create as a dealer. The real world which they are towards attempts to communicate about, they don't really understand that. So I want to put my resources where my mouth is. If you are a artist, you need two basic things to make your message for your work relevant. You need to create a profile. In the world, if you are an unknown, you are not better. It's not enough to be the profile. You need the world to know you. So the profile helps you, helps the world to know you. So how do you do that? Magazines like Adafrica, they don't make you, they give you a profile. So if you want to keep those people to understand the world, give it meaning, then you need magazines, you need platforms like the magazines to extend that message to them. That ad fair, I always say the ad fair itself is good over other ads. Traditionally established ad fairs is despite being new to society. It gives them opportunity to everyone. You think you are good enough? Putting your application be assessed. If you are really good enough, you will get the chance to show your work. Even if you don't make a sale, if you are good enough, you will be not by collectors because they buy through, you will be noticed by other media, reporting about the event. Because your work features there, on the list you go through, it opens up some opportunities for you. So if you did get yourself to create ad and want to create a career, you need these platforms to give you the exposure, the profile, the document about these events, people get to know about them. And doesn't it is especially here in Adafrica where we have a place of those opportunities, the best thing that can happen to you. In the nearest future, I will be receiving an interviewer award in Frankfurt, German, upcoming month, which is December. As the face of African years, this is a big one because it is international. They look at all African's in their school and African continent. So TV identified and recognized it means we are doing the right show. And next year, participating in sitting ad fair, African ad fair in London, the Hong Kong ad fair. And this time I will be breaking the barrier, check the step beyond African continent. I think it is a positive step and next year's where I will be taking over a residence in Europe for five months, was at the time the Southern African Foundation for contemporary ad. I think there are some of the things that makes you realize this, you are doing something right. .