Today we’d like to introduce you to Jordan Collins.
Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
I go by the stage name INVADER. I am a multidisciplinary artist currently enrolled as a senior at Otis College of Art and Design with my major in Motion graphics and my minor in illustration. As an Animator, Designer, Illustrator, and Producer from Oakland Ca I enjoy being able to explore the boundaries between visual arts and Music as a way of bringing people together.
Please tell us about your art.
I Have always had an attraction to the strange and profound in search of why and how the world around me works as a means of self-discovery. I Find the idea of personal, modern, and ancient legends to serve as metaphors of universal truths that we all face. Much of my work revolves around themes of dreams, destiny, fate, the cosmos, the supernatural, the future and that of science fiction. I think If I had one goal is for people to understand is that we are a lot more alike than we are different.
While in many ways I find my own identity as an artist to be difficult to express or identify with due to my split in interests working as a motion graphics artist allows me to acknowledge all various facets of myself. As a visual artist, I am a huge believer in storytelling and conveying an idea through images, but as a musician, I am only able to express my emotions through songs and compositions. While both of these means of expressions may relate to a certain audience, in a certain way, I am able to access both by creating animations and videos that introduce someone to a much larger world and provide a soundscape to which individuals can feel on an emotional level by the mood being expressed.Through my own work, I would like to encourage others to think that with each new movement, expression or art piece it nothing but another language to be learned to create a much larger conversation
Do you have any advice for other artists? Any lessons you wished you learned earlier?
Upon looking, back at my own experiences and understanding as a young multidisciplinary black artist, I have found that the collectivism found in art making to be not only a safe haven for myself to explore my own identity, but also a way to find that I wasn’t alone in the struggle and journey of finding oneself. As someone who has grown up with feelings of alienation towards others in regards to my own personal interests and taste, to be able to find others that were just as curious or willing to explore, was always something that allowed me to grow not only as an artist but as a human being.
I think it’s important to be able to recognize your own experiences and understand that there’s no such thing as a wrong or right way to express yourself but its more about whether you’re being honest about it or not. Like for me it’s never been about whether I agree with everything you have to say but I think if people can see that you put a lot of time thought and effort into something people can’t help but respect that. It’s only when we see that people aren’t honest with themselves about the work, they make whether it be for clout, or because they’re working in a just because it’s popular or whatever that it lacks the real passion and sincerity that makes good art in my book.
Contact Info:
- Website: The4thinvader.com
- Phone: 5103016046
- Email: J.CxArtist@gmail.com
- Instagram: The_4th_Invader
- Other: https://soundcloud.com/paradoxthegalacticarmada/sets/chaos-the-noise-of-god-r-a-d
Image Credit:
Jordan Collins
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