My name is Nazera and I live in Bridgeport, Canada. I've been living here for quite a while. As you can see, I'm an artist, a painter, and it's been a bit difficult to be productive and stay productive. This year I'm hoping to change this about myself personally and my life personally. I would like to dedicate more time to painting. But I haven't been able to do this because I've been focused on my health all the time. I have a sickle-solid name and it's a very painful disease. And most of my life has been just distracted around this thing that just really annoys my life. But this is also part of it. It's from my pain that I find a way to express my feelings, my emotions, and hopefully find something or a release name. So my work is not really created for commercial purposes really. I find a meditation in it. But because I've created a sickle-solid series of pain paintings, and it seems like my life that focused on this sickle-solid efficacy and speaking and just being a face for this disease. But I never felt that my heart was seeing it seriously enough because I do feel that I have something to offer. The world that is more than a face of pain. And living with it is difficult, but what I would like to do with my future is change things. I start focusing just on living with pain, but add something to my life that is more of a celebration of life, and a celebration of being successful at fighting and struggling and just being alive and being happy in life. So I haven't been too happy because I haven't been paying. I run out of supplies and I don't have the art materials to continue to produce, so I have all this stuff in my head. And I'm not able to put it on canvas because I don't have it. And sometimes I run out of paint, and sometimes I run out of paper, or whatever it is that I run out of. I just lay around with insomnia all night long thinking about these paintings and I'm unable to release. So this year I want to continue a series that I've been thinking about for many years. I'm calling it Haitian Superflat. It's a mixture of Haitian culture with Japanese culture. It is strange for a black man to be trading such a thing. But I don't have to be put in a box and labeled as something. Because I don't feel like I'm creating Haitian art when I paint. I'm just inspired by it because I was born in Port Prince. And my memories of my mother, my memories of family, my memories of friends. It's all about Haitian, everything that is a core of Huayang is basically the spice from Haitian. But moving to the United States, moving to Brooklyn, and moving to Bridgewood, Connecticut. I felt a sense of loss of identity. I struggled with finding something and output that says, this is Huayang. To say to the world that I'm not about this disease that distracts me. But I am about the colors that I use. I am about expressing something about being human, being able to survive. Things that really really get in your way. Starting this campaign and project this year, hopefully I can obtain some really large canvases. So I can get a kind of detail that I want in my work and get some brushless and very thick acrylic paint. And I will just continue to work late that night when I'm not able to sleep. Or when I'm in pain or when I'm bothered. Just to be able to release on these canvases and hopefully I'll be able to fill the process of pain and sharing this with the world. I am not a big name. I'm not someone who is trying to go out there and I don't want to get my work so much. But I do enjoy sharing it. And I do enjoy the process of creating something. The process of producing and the process of growing the process of just the movement in my work. So basically I'm hoping that just can kickstart something new in my life. And just to be able to fund the supplies that I need to be able to work the way I want to work without having to take shortcuts or cut corners on the paint and the layers that I use. And I want to be able to make it thicker and produce more detail and produce more lines and produce more texture. I would like to scan this with me maybe two or three times larger. Just a large wall of blank canvas that I can paint on and create something that is beautiful to me and share that. That is my story. And this is the project that I was hoping to take a step towards. But it is of the life that I have to live. I've been struggling with pain all my life. But for 15 or so years I've been trying to find my art, finding to paint. I haven't created that much and I haven't sold that much. But I have been able to show my work, I've been able to publish some of my work which is mostly dealing with civil society's art. But I hope to change this. I hope to be able to change the image and the box that I'm stuck here. So I'm not a Haitian painter, I'm not a black painter, I'm not anything else but a human being. And I want to share what I enjoy. I enjoy cultures. So I'm going to mix different cultures into my paintings. But my start is Haitian super flat, where it is Haiti, Japan, all together. So it should be interesting because this is something I always wanted to do. I want to be able to travel again and visit. Go back to Haiti and visit and see everything that has happened in the last couple of years that affected my work. And maybe finally make my dream come true and visit Japan and learn. First hand, about the artwork that I admire from there. I'm not really so much into what France or Europe, because that's not really what draws me. Because in our history, everybody focuses on the Renaissance. I want to focus on something that is deeply African, where it's my Haitian roots, the culture. And something very foreign to me, which is Japan. And something that I want to use in my work and mix that up and make a nice little gumball, create old, strange, with two different cultures. That is the project that I want you to work on. And I hope that I'll be able to find a support for it. And thank you for watching this and I thank you for your support.