My early inspirations came from the bible stories my mother read to us as children; thus, allowing those biblical teachings to have a significant influence on my dreams and visions. Naturally, I transformed those into pencil drawings in my school books and created my toys using telephone wires I found on the streets all since I was 3yrs. Up until I was 14yrs my mom didn’t grasp my art nor did she accept it as she sed to burn them; labelling them evil, not understanding the early craftsman. I believe that caused me to think why create if she’s just going to burn them. So, I threw away the wiremen she couldn’t find and burned the rest of the artworks myself. Form those times through 2008 I lost touch with art significantly; my wasted years in high school had me neglecting my craft and also criticized for its eccentricity. Even though there was some art done for school projects it was too instructed and for lower than I was truly capable of even then.

2009 was my year of reckoning, I finally wrapped my mind around the internet for an extended period of time in a new city, with my first mentor, a friend of my bigger sister who also had a tremendous influence on my creativity as she was a good artist at the time. I was suddenly yanked from that atmosphere and went back home at the latter parts of that very year. I was in withdrawal; being exposed to mythology, anime, eroticism, fashion, social media! Seeing my favorite celebrities for the first time and seeing art that people around me would misjudge -being celebrated as masterpieces. It was all there and then it was gone. Regardless, I was a fish out of water, and I needed to go back in that place to breathe. I brought forth my own mental ocean. I developed so many new ideas for stories, poems, drawings and paintings, even entrepreneurial ideas. I had no laptop, so I wrote and drew on everything clear enough. I started practicing and developing my styles, I even found new understandings with religion and with my purpose and place in this world and universe. I stopped watching local television and religiously listened to the BBC radio service. I struggled to show people my new understandings and naturally I was neglected and shunned by my friends and family; however, not so harshly and not me personally just the ideas I had.

Now, I have become so confident in my craft, my style for various mediums is developed, I surround my thoughts with positive people, energy and I create without discrimination; without regards to common human limitations (religion, moral, etc.) and without regrets. Some things I keep to myself, some works can must never be sold or seen and even I am surprised at the things I create sometimes as if I am falling out of a trance when its complete. 2017 Dec. 3rd I finally made known to the world of my craft. After years of keeping it to myself and showing my friends in college I made the decision to follow this path. I believe meeting my wife had an even more significant role to play with this decision, not that she told me but the mere fact that she was present at the exact time of this decision is no coincidence. As soon as I showcased my work I was covered at that same even by a journalist. I appeared in the Jamaican national newspaper the following Wednesday and a buzz started to happen. I had to leave Jamaica for the birth of my son January and have been living in the US since. I am no longer in daddy mode; I finally have the ability to share my art with America and the rest of the world and I heavily look forward in doing so. ‘My Duty’, is to know that everything operates on a frequency and it is ‘My Purpose’ to hone the capability to tap into any frequency I desire; to be inspired to create anything, without indulging in or partaking of anything.

My new collection is coming June 2020. Until then I will make available works form my previous collections, please enjoy! “There’s always more… Eccentric Artistry.”—imuzi