We’re looking forward to introducing you to Vai Trask. Check out our conversation below.
Good morning Vai, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? Have you stood up for someone when it cost you something?
Growth is the loss of weight we’re no longer meant to bear. No friend, no connection, and no love is ever lost. I only stood up for myself and had everything to gain. Ends there.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Vai Trask, aka VaiBionic. I’m a painter, self taught. Let me just say, it’s great to talk with you again. Y’all been with me since the beginning.
I’m so incredibly honored and grateful to announce, in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning composer and songwriter, Nadeem Majdalany, my next solo exhibition in Los Angeles:
PANDORA: A captivating plunge into the painted world of La Pandora’s Box
I’m so very excited to share with the world this new exclusive series and experience.
After 9 years in the making, Nadeem Majdalany has completed the very first 12k RAW true 360 immersive cinematic concert experience.
“Viewers will take a narrative journey through creation, chaos, and redemption, with the help of the original score composed by Nadeem Majdalany.”
I’m so excited and blessed to be asked to be part of such an epochal moment in Art, innovation, evolution, amalgamation, and Art History.
This solo art exhibition will be featured at The Miracle Theatre, Inglewood, on Saturday, Oct. 25th, 2025.
I’m so very happy to also share that I’ll be showing my work at Art World Paris and Art Basel Miami this winter. A lot of things are happening and happening fast.
It’s stressful, but I love this shit.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What was your earliest memory of feeling powerful?
Wow, powerful. Powerful? Wow, that’s crazy.
I’d say… today. It was today, October 1st, 2025. It’s been a whirlwind of emotions, victories, pain, endings, and new beginnings. My work talks to me. I communicate by articulating what it is I feel the only way I know how. That “How” is painting.
I don’t know. I know two things…
One… I know is that I know nothing. Two… I don’t know what I don’t know.
I don’t know if I feel “Powerful”. But, I’ll tell you right now… I’m hype. I’m very hype on myself right about now.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
I learned life wasn’t about me.
Life had nothing to do with me. Life has to do with my effect on the people, being that of “the greats”.
I was the survivor of an attempted murder, losing a pregnancy/my second child due to the violence of a domestic partner. I flatlined, resurrected, was in a coma, woke, and had to learn how to be a human again. I was born into this next life with the experience of a 30 yr old woman and a mind that of an infant.
I didn’t want to wake up. I cursed the gods for bringing me back to life. I wanted, and deserved, none of this mercy.
Side note… the man got out early (serving 7/15 yrs), because CDCR and the justice system ain’t shit.
Anyways…
Before I died, I was an asshole. I got stories that’ll turn your hair white, for real. I literally had a bucket list that I accomplished in a matter of months. I mastered a life without substance. Nobody ever deserves to experience such pain and loss. However, being said… that chick had to go. She had to, that’s okay, and I thank the heavens she did.
I found myself living a life where death was required of me in order to get where it is I’m meant to be. Suffering was required of me, unfortunately… or fortunately.
Yeah…
Did I answer the question at all?
Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
The biggest lie this industry sells in general is that ART HAS RULES!
Says who?
“Art has rules.”
Oh… okay.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
Stop doing? Nothing. I’d do more shit.
To be honest, if I had trust that the universe would end me in ten years, I’d keep doing what I doing, but relapse.
End of Days. That’s where we at.
I ready for post apocalyptic Earth. That’s my shit. It’s my time. I ready. Me and the roaches.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @paintedvaionic @pandorasbox @mmajdelany @themiracleinglewoood
Image Credits
Nadeem Majdalany
La Pandora’s Box
The Miracle Theatre, Inglewood
