How about we start with this, uhm so what’s your name?
Sakuan: My full government is *BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP* but I go by Sakuan online, my close family and friends call me *BLEEP*
How did you come up with the name Sa… Sak…
Sakuan: SA-KU-AN
So how did you come up with that?
Sakuan: it’s easy, they’re the first two letters of each of my first, second and third name. I was about 10 years old when I came up with that.
Do you consider yourself an artist?
(Sakuan pauses and thinks before answering)
Sakuan: Yes, I consider myself an artist, am I a good or bad artist? Well that’s subjective, just depends on who is looking at my work and why.
Why do you make art every day?
Sakuan: I do that because it gives me hope, a purpose and some sort of an identity if that makes sense.
You also write I believe, how did that come about?
Sakuan: So back in primary school as we called it back in Kenya, we used to write essays of made up stories a lot and I was decent at it. Fast forward to college here in America, my professor in a writing class I took used my work as an example to other students. At the time this didn’t mean a lot to me because I was at a weird place in my life mentally. I also used to write a lot on my notebooks when I was in a boring class about what was thinking at the time and It was always interesting to go back a month later and read the stuff I wrote just to see where my head was at. Writing relaxes me.
Interesting, interesting, what inspires your art and stories?
Sakuan: It’s hard to say…
Would you like to expand on that?
Sakuan: well, I just do it, If something looks cool to me in my head, I put it on paper, then show it to the world and whether they like it or not it’s up to them because in my head at the time, I like it.
To Be Continued…
