If one is to be born with the abnormalities that come with creativity, others may count it as a blessing. However, be prepared for an estrangement from reality, your peers, your loved ones, as no one will understand exactly how your mind functions. The synesthesia you face every day, the divine images, screen shots even, of worlds that do not exist in the corporeal, will soon run your existence. If you’re so lucky to manage and corrall it, like a cowboy corralls a cow, or a sheepdog sheep, you could benefit. If that is what you truly want.
In actuality, the majority of those that end up in this predicament, become lost to time, remnants of themselves decayed or in families’ storage. To pursue on the side, punch numbers in the day. Privilege, luck, or gusto is the only way out.
This does not need to be the case.
Schaedyn McIntyre is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer, with a BFA in Graphic Design.
Attended Pratt Institute, USC Roski, and Otis for undergrad.
Born, raised, and residing in Los Angeles, CA.
[ Pictured: Schaedyn and her 26-year-old African Grey parrot, Sebastian. 4x5 large format film, shot by Bella Villa (@bvilla.photo) ]