00:04My name is Ramon Kiminyang aka Rostar. I'm an abstract calligrapher, painter, and multimedia
00:12artist. From an early age I always loved to draw but never really thought that I would become an
00:22artist. That wasn't my goal. I realized I loved making iconography like logo designs, like
00:28typography and you know that was really like my specialty. Like I loved that so much. Afterwards
00:34I worked in the industry a little bit. I worked for magazines and then I worked in the record
00:39industry like doing art direction design. I liked it but I what I ultimately realized is that I didn't
00:46want to work for other people or I didn't want people to cloud up my vision. If I had a
00:51vision
00:52of like what it should look like or what is going to solve a problem or whatever I felt like
00:56I knew
00:57really deeply that this is you know really strongly I just like this is what it should be. I guess
01:03all
01:03roads sort of just led me to be an artist because I can't work for other people you know that
01:09it's
01:10like rebellion sort of led me to my path here you know to be an artist.
01:18Well for me personally I feel like creativity is like freedom like for me painting is freedom like in
01:27in a way that it's I just get lost in it you know it's something that it takes it's bigger
01:32than me.
01:33If you really want to get out the full potential of your creativity it's you know it's not sometimes
01:40it's not that easy you know. I've learned so much about myself and and I learn something every day
01:49like when I make art or you know when I make a painting I learn something and so it's not
01:55just
01:55about painting or technique it's about who I am and you know what makes me tick.
02:05I've been lucky to work with Potato Head like uh two times before at least they knew what they
02:10were dealing with you know and so they uh the owner and the creative director really loved my work and
02:16ultimately for this project it's so large they're like who else is gonna do it and so they're like
02:22we just wanted someone to do something instead of showing like a black wall I'm like okay well
02:27I'll do it yeah no problem and they didn't try to give me any direction or basically if you're
02:34gonna hire me like my whole thing is either you trust me or you don't if you don't then then
02:39hire
02:40someone else but I'm not that's not how I work you have to you know it's a bit risky but
02:45if you
02:47know my work then you know that I'm only gonna deliver.
02:52I take into account what where I'm doing the piece and you know obviously you know they're
02:59asking me to if there was a way I can infuse you know like concepts of Balinese culture
03:06like Balinese dancers, Hindu gods ever since I moved to Bali I was you know really influenced by
03:14like the culture here too and I was actually making a lot of mandalas incorporating characters
03:22it's all about movement either it's characters or abstraction and so yeah you know I want to be
03:28thoughtful too I don't it's not like okay let me just paint a bunch of devils or anything
03:34I want it to be something that pertains to the area to the place I'm doing it you know
03:48I can't believe today is the last day so it's really I don't want to say bittersweet but it's
03:54really like I'm just really happy to get back to my life and and back to my family you know
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