Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw8NW7bQXJg Starts at: 00:55:04 (jump to 00:55:04)
Victor — Visual Art and Isolation Story
[00:55:04] way to start the show that was that was funny that was yeah it was funny okay all right yeah [00:55:13] so we got a show on our hands I see yes get some laughs in you know I like that I like that [00:55:19] and we also have some special gifts for anyone who steps up on the stage to speak I know it is you [00:55:26] know kind of intimidating to be over here speaking you hear my voice crack it in and out that’s me [00:55:31] holding the microphone wrong my bad um but yeah so some giveaways so when you get up here to speak [00:55:37] make sure you get a giveaway for being a part of this all right so coming to the stage coming to [00:55:45] the stage I want y’all to give it up for Victor one dude give it up for him y’all [00:55:49] I don’t have any joke this will be actually kind of depressing [00:56:06] but uh yeah this is uh it’s kind of very new for me I would say about um kind of four months [00:56:17] in the process of trying to overcome [00:56:19] addiction depression a bunch of other sort of mental health issues and [00:56:26] it’s kind of really great for me to be here just to be with a big group of people [00:56:33] I mean one thing I hear a lot is what we all need is connections to other people that’s what [00:56:39] makes us human beings being able to interact with each other and actually we’re nervous being up here [00:56:46] um [00:56:48] but uh [00:56:49] part of the reason I really I wanted to sort of I’m an artist visual artist I wanted to [00:56:54] um kind of make some of my people here have some on display over there and do the fundraising [00:57:00] and I was thinking to myself um I mean art is basically communication like why am I so nervous [00:57:06] standing up here and speaking to you when I’m so comfortable making various art points [00:57:12] I mean that’s pretty much what it is um part of things I do is uh design work by graphic designer [00:57:19] which is [00:57:19] um pretty straightforward in a way it’s kind of like um you know you have a task someone comes [00:57:25] and eat a restaurant and you’re like okay well I can do this or that then there’s another piece [00:57:31] where it’s art or something that I completely created and to me I find that to be a very um [00:57:37] like organic and beautiful way to communicate because often you have an emotion and you don’t [00:57:43] really know how to communicate it in words and uh one of the most beautiful things I like doing is [00:57:49] is I make something with a particular thought in mind and someone else will often find the piece [00:57:57] that I think is the ugliest and they’ll be like whoa that’s great that reminds me of this and that [00:58:03] and they get something so much more powerful than you and I intended and I myself don’t even know [00:58:09] why I particularly came up with that so um I just wanted to it’s been a while since I had a chance [00:58:15] to uh just see a bunch of artwork seeing people getting together and creating events [00:58:19] um just coming here with uh just friends and people that I’ve met you’re asking not to really [00:58:25] come with uh like a family to me so um I’m often very isolated I don’t really like to go out too [00:58:31] much so coming out here and getting out of my own skin and just trying to see how why I’ve been [00:58:38] here for like days and yeah I’m really happy to see all of you [00:58:49] hey give it a fan one more time y’all give it up