PERSONALITY INTERVIEW WITH "CHRISTIE ANDERSON" BY: EZEKIEL MOSES

Hello and welcome to CHANGE ENTERTAINMENT I am EZEKIEL MOSES saying: thank you for joining us on this blog. Today I have a very important guest you will be glad to meet. She is a very talented and creative personality. I would let you meet her so she can tell her story. 

Welcome to CHANGE ENTERTAINMENT please can we meet you?

Hi my name is Christie Anderson I am 18 years old I am aspiring makeup artist. Makeup isn’t my only dedication. I have a passion for all arts. I love to dance, draw, and write poetry.  I don’t really know where my passion came from.  I wasn’t really allowed to do art growing up. But every creative form of expression I came across was interesting to me and inspired me to create more. It’s my form of expressing my emotions.

I’ve been drawing since I was little, making little doodles in my notebooks and on my homework. I actually used to draw a doodle when I didn’t know an answer until the answer came. I guess you can call it my thinking process. As I grew up, I’d sneak into the living room while my dad watched action or monster movies. I’d wonder where they’d find real monsters to cast for a movie. 

I did a little research and realized it was all the work of makeup artists and creative directors. So from then, I wanted to turn people into monsters just like in the movies. My uncle Steven introduced me to sculpture when I was young. He’d tell me cereal boxes weren’t only for holding cereal, and showed me how to break down the box and turn it into a dog or a person. After that, I kind of explored on my own on the internet and in museums or graffiti on the streets. I found art everywhere.

 Art, to me, is everything. It can be nothing, but mean everything to somebody.

What inspires me? Everything, I guess. I kind of find a detail or situation and it inspires me. I also like to look at other people’s art. I like to see how the world is viewed through another person’s eyes. Visual art is basically a conversation without words. So I try to read between the pencil marks or the brush strokes. 

I like to watch shows like Face Off and Cake Boss. They make beautiful and terrifying pieces of art using different mediums. So I’d watch and take whatever challenge they have that week and think of how I’d do it if I were on the show. I also like taking different concepts like the Seven Deadly Sins or mythological creatures from different cultures and create them in my mind. I’d ask myself “What would all these things look like if they were roaming around the earth like your average human being?” So anything that makes me think differently inspires me.

 The arts, I believe, are a tool that can be used to make people think differently. The left side of our brain makes us think logically and mathematically, while the right side is dominated with our creative and moral selves. Sometimes we have to think with the right side of our brains in order to understand the issue. We can’t just think of it as a logical matter, we have to think about the emotions and morals connected with them. Like the issue going on now in America with budget cuts to the arts. It’s shown that students without some sort of artistic education will also suffer in their academics. Only the left side of their brains is being stimulated. Also, the right side of our brain controls language. 

Art is a language. You can use a painting, a song, a sculpture, a dance, any form of art to communicate how you feel. I had a series of pieces I did in high school surrounding abuse in its different forms. I used my art to show how I feel abuse is affecting children. Physical, verbal, and domestic violence are more of a problem than people would like to discuss. There’s also a piece called “She Mistook My Kindness For Weakness.” It’s a very passionate, angry painting of a demolished stuffed bunny. I’m not one for defacing stuffed animals, but that was the artist’s way of showing how he felt about how his girlfriend treated him. I think it’s stunning. I’d rather have a painting of violence towards something she loved than have an artist be violent towards their subject.

 I am actually on a pursuit to get my makeup certification by the end of this year. I am also part of a dance company currently in Georgia. I hope to learn and gain a passion for the arts, both visual and performing. I don’t really want fame or fortune out of it. I just do it because it’s my passion. I will be attending college trying to get a Bachelor’s Degree in Illustration or Sculpture with a minor in Theater Production. Right now, I’m trying to get experience in the entertainment industry, so that I will understand the ins and outs. I do want to keep doing glamour and fashion makeup. I am also trying to build my sculptural experience so I can start creating prosthetics. I want to learn on my own and then take a course in multi-media makeup, so that one day I can reach my goal of making monsters in the movies or on a stage.

 I want to say, don’t hold back. If you feel like creativity is in you express it. I spent too long hiding the creativity in myself because of what others said or thought, but in the end, I wasn’t happy. Be you, express yourself. Dance like a fool, paint everything, sing until you can’t hear others’ opinions, and create the you that you want to be.

  I just want to say thanks to all those who supported me. Every day is a new day to make something of yourself, so I hope to do just that. It may be a struggle, but not everything will come on a silver platter.

Alright people thank you so much for joining us today, I remain yours sincerely EZEKIEL MOSES from CHANGE ENTERTAINMENT saying thank YOU!