Daz It, Daz All
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Daz It, Daz All
Artist Spotlight: Chris Jordan
Can art be a lifeline amidst chaos? Join us as we sit down with the incredibly talented Christopher Jordan to uncover his remarkable artistic journey. From growing up in a family of artists and transitioning from architecture to painting, to the bold move to LA for a fresh start amidst a turbulent political climate, Christopher shares the intimate details of his evolution as an artist. We dive into his early inspirations, the influential teachers and schools that shaped his passion, and the challenges he faced coming out. Plus, get an inside look at his impressive collaborations with icons like Lucky Daye, Babyface, Brandy, and Beyoncé.
Host KC Carnage (@iamkccarnage), Chris Jordan (@christeddypaints)
Daz It Daz All is written by KC Carnage (@iamkccarnage) and Produced by KC Carnage and Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill). Associate producer Bri Coorey (@bri_beats), Audio and Video Engineering and Studio facilities provided by S.L.A.P. Studios LA (@SLAPStudiosLA) with distribution through our collective for social progress and cultural expression, SLAP the Network. (@SLAPtheNetwork.com)
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The overall inspiration for moving to LA was because I feel like I needed a fresh start. I just came out and we were in the midst of all this craziness and chaos, with Trump being elected and all this type of stuff happening. I just felt like New York City was not the place for me to start anew. That's the push to get out here, but the person that told me to come out here and didn't answer my text messages until I came out here was KC. Okay. So she the real reason why I'm out here y'all. She the real reason.
Speaker 2:No, you're the reason, I'm the reason but she threatened me in text messages.
Speaker 1:That's it, that's all. That's it, that's all.
Speaker 2:That's it, that's all. That's Desi, deso, desi, deso, desi, Deso. Black excellence at it's finest. How that skin glow, she's a true diamond. With the world at her back, she's still smiling. Never let that crown stay. She stays thriving. Desi, deso, desi, deso, desi, deso, desi, deso. Is that really it? That's it, that's all. Is that really it, though? What up, what up, what up? Welcome to, that's it, that's All. Y'all know me, your host, kc Carnage, and today we got one of my very, very best friends, one of the most amazing artists that I've come across too. He's an icon in the making. We got Christopher Jordan on the show, hi, and today we're going to get to know him. This man has done so much. I mean, I can tell you because you know, I got the graveyard secrets.
Speaker 2:But, we're going to talk about his professional life, working with various artists such as Lucky Day, babyface, brandy, and just recently, yes, he was with the Queen Bee on the Renaissance Tour. And let's just get into it, hey, chris hi, how are you?
Speaker 1:how? You doing I'm good. How are you? I'm very proud of you, oh thank you. Thanks for coming on thank you for having me so let's dig into in your early years, chris.
Speaker 2:Um, I've known you basically all my life, but the people don't know you. Um, I've known you to be very creative at such a young age. What inspired you and what like? What was it that said that I need to be an artist?
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, wow, Never. That's a great question. I've never actually thought about that. I can speak to what I was inspired by and my entire family is artists, as you know, um, and so my mom always instilled in us to just do the things you love, and so the thing that I love the most and the thing that fed me and my passion was art, and so anything that do art you know, dance, theater, drawing, any of that stuff I was trying to be in it okay.
Speaker 2:So do you think that, like it was like a calling, because I was, because, because my thing is like I, I was like, I mean, I guess I was there when you picked up the brush but, like how did you know, like really know, that you were good and you wanted to hone into that art? Because, I mean, we all went to gifted and talented schools right but like you've taken your art to so many different mediums, um, how did you navigate through that?
Speaker 1:um, I don't know, I feel like the first, the first time I actually knew I was good. I guess was, um, and what's that lady's name?
Speaker 2:our teacher in um glenfield no, no in glenfield we drew the portraits oh, miss allen miss allen's class, that's one, that's, that's for sure.
Speaker 1:When I fell in love with portraiture because she taught me how to draw faces, and the correct way to do it, not the art museum, no, you remember them in DC. Yeah, Well, that was way after that, though, but yeah, no, I feel like yeah, no, no.
Speaker 2:Sorry y'all Native Americans.
Speaker 1:We're using the pastels on the video. Oh God, I'm trying to get. We're going to talk about that too. Okay, trying to get in with Montclair Art Museum, if y'all Okay.
Speaker 2:Montclair Art Museum.
Speaker 1:If y'all watching, I'm trying to be a part of y'all exhibit, y'all next exhibit. Anyway, I'm off track. So when did I know I was good?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So I just didn't do any drawing, it was just architecture architecture, architecture. And what school did you go to? I went to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn Five-year college. I didn't get no sleep. I worked in the field for about 10 years actually after that, but, um, I didn't pick up the paintbrush again until I moved to la that's when I turned 30 so I had I had not painted for wow 10, 15 years, and then I started painting when I got back, when I got here okay, yeah, well, let's dig into it.
Speaker 2:Like, as artists, you know we're tortured souls, right? Um, what inspired you to a move to LA and what was those challenges behind that?
Speaker 1:um, the. The overall inspiration um for moving to LA was because I feel like I needed a fresh start. Um, I have just came out, um, and we were in the midst of all this just just craziness and chaos, with Trump being elected and all this type of stuff happening. I just felt like New York City was not the place for me to start anew. That's the push to get out here, but the person that told me to come out here and didn't answer my text messages until I came out here was KC. Okay, so she the real reason why I'm out here, y'all. She the real reason.
Speaker 2:No, you're the reason I'm out here. Y'all she the real reason. No, you're the reason. I'm the reason, You're the reason.
Speaker 1:She threatened me in text messages Because that's my best friend, y'all.
Speaker 2:I was just like what you doing, like for real, it's cold. No, it's cold. Go over there, go over there Struggling through the snow.
Speaker 1:Girl, I'm starting to act like I'm not from Jersey but, to be totally honest, I feel like my story is a lot less to most of us than a lot of people who move here. When I got here, I had you guys. I had some stability. I really didn't know what my plan was. I had not had the job secured, any of that stuff for real when I got here when you started.
Speaker 2:Here was you. I mean, I mean, I know your story. I'm asking these questions as if I don't know you no, yeah, no, I mean, that's what um, did you start in your art here? What did you start doing when you came? Here um, you mean the painting no, no, like as far as, like you came here, you weren't secure. What was your first job, were you?
Speaker 1:Oh dang. What was my first job?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I feel like I was laying around trying to figure it out the whole time, but when I finally secured a job, it was Ralph Gentile Architects.
Speaker 2:He's an architect y'all. He's an architect y'all. We not playing, we got real people.
Speaker 1:We got the juice. They're a restaurant architecture firm and I did some really great work with them. It was a short stint because I worked with them for a few. I moved here in 2018, pandemic hit in 2020, and I got laid off, so I did a few jobs with them.
Speaker 2:It was a really great, great team boutique firm like four of us five of us, rather um and then I started crv production right after that okay, so you, in turn of you, starting your company crv productions, where they do photography, um, they do film, they do editing, they do the whole shebang. Whatever you want, they got yes, um what made you not want to go back into architecture?
Speaker 1:that was a really hard decision because I've always wanted to be architect, even outside of all art. I just like that's where I wanted to be. I am a person who likes to be comfortable and not always in a way where it's like a crutch or anything, but I felt like I needed a challenge and so I also was not being appreciated as much as I wanted to be. At architecture firms like literally microaggressions every day, not being paid the way I need to be paid, and I was doing great work.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And I say you know what I'm not about to do is I'm just I'm just going to work for myself. And you know what I mean. And I say, you know what I'm not about to do is I'm gonna just work for myself. Um and so, and when did crv come to fruition? Crv came to fruition? I can't remember.
Speaker 1:I feel like we've been in business for the first year. We didn't really really do a whole lot, but I feel like when was it? Right after pandemic? It was the pandemic. We started putting it together after the pandemic and then things literally just started falling into place the decision to leave architecture and not go back, because I actually got an offer letter to come back. Once the pandemic kind of calmed down and I ignored it, completely ignored it. I went with my intuition. I was like you know what, chris, pandemic kind of calmed down and I ignored it, completely ignored it. I went with my intuition, was like you know what, chris, any type of crutch that is thrown at you is going to deter you from your real purpose and your real passion. And so that path showed itself to me and I stayed true to it so well that's what's up.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think I feel like divine intervention absolutely is real right absolutely like things happen and you're like well, maybe, and the comfortability does help.
Speaker 1:It's like I can get a check every two weeks, you know, is that?
Speaker 2:what's going to? Is that what's going to um, enhance and involve what my purpose? Is going to be so like that's dope that you were able to um figure out that way. I can't do this. I could, but it's not going to be right and most people can't do that, you know. So that's amazing that you were able to recognize that. All right, so let's talk about CRV Productions. Tell us about that, Like how's it been? What's going on?
Speaker 1:CRV Productions has been my entire life, especially for the last two or three years. The work we have done with this company and just trying to build it from scratch and just where we're at now is just leaps and bounds. Like, literally, ro myself, you, we all came together and decided we wanted to do something, put it together and then, literally, casey I'm not even going to lie like we got them first few jobs and then after that we had a little cold spell for a little bit and then stuff just started rolling, rolling, rolling like, um, we work a lot, we are proud, we pride ourselves on working with all black creatives, um, because it is um our passion to make sure that we are displaying our people in the brightest, most colorful, most intriguing of lights. And so we do film, we do graphic design, we do photo, we do content creation. We do a little bit of everything. Honestly.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:What's been your favorite project and what's been your least favorite project. Oh, I ain't going to do that. Oh, yes, we are Not the least favorite project If you't gonna do that, oh yes, we are not the least favorite project. Oh my god, okay. So um, to date, my favorite project was um shooting for the be good foundation alongside the renaissance world tour. That was incredible yes, y'all Incredible.
Speaker 2:He was working with the queen.
Speaker 1:That was really. That was an incredible experience.
Speaker 2:And you toured not only nationally but internationally.
Speaker 1:Internationally, yeah, and I hadn't even been out of the country. I mean, I've been out of the country, like you know, caribbean and stuff but I have not been across the pond yet. And so it's my first time to all of these places poland, uh, germany, paris, all these places. It was just amazing, amazing it's.
Speaker 2:It's so amazing to see your friends win right um. One of my favorite moments in that journey for you and it was personal for me is that you know, as like as you guys are gonna know, you're gonna get to know like literally this has been one of my best friends since we were like six years old and we've grown up together in different versions of each other. But I remember one Mother's Day, chris painted a portrait of my grandmother and gave it to my uncle. Now my uncle is a musician as well and he tours around the country, around the world, all things, and one of one of his uh fans has a um cafe shop and they named it after my grandmother.
Speaker 2:So there is a nancy lee um cafe in warsaw, poland warsaw, poland, which I got to visit, and that's all just like that was touching to me, because I was like somebody that knew this woman that painted this woman, that gave this painting to somebody in LA ended up getting to see it in Poland my art's in Poland. In Poland it was like it warmed my heart and I just said like you know you, you know you never know what's gonna happen. Right, you just put your art out freely, and I know that you are an advocate about putting your art out. So how do you want to be the change, chris?
Speaker 1:I definitely want to be the change. I'm multi-hyphenate but I definitely want to be the change.
Speaker 2:Okay, Dr Wendy.
Speaker 1:Not trying to do that. I don't got four degrees. I'm not that person. Oh my God, that sounds so bad, doesn't it, Guys? I promise you, I'm the humblest guy in the person. I'm not that guy.
Speaker 2:We're just joking.
Speaker 1:I do a lot of things as an artist and I'm very proud of that. But I think the thing I'm most proud of is my love for painting, because that is just an extension for me of the universe, like I'm just a vessel to create those pieces, and so I like to create my change through my pieces. So if a person stands in front of one of my pieces and they feel some type of emotion, something that inspires them, something that just drives them to be better, that's what that's the change I want to be.
Speaker 2:OK, so what drives you?
Speaker 1:Hmm, a lot of things, a lot of things, lot of things. These questions are amazing. Um, dang, what drives me? I don't want to be cliche and say my passion drives me, but literally it, literally, yeah, I don't want to be that artist like, but it is. It's like I, I, it was the driving force for me to come out here. Even in architecture, the thing was, the back of my mind was my paint, paintings, those type of things? Um, and so my drive to you know what you know, my drive is, my drive is continue to make art that shows us in a great light okay because we don't get that there's so little of it in every, everywhere, you know, in, in, in media and literature, everywhere there's.
Speaker 1:There's no good, just not a lot of positive images of us, and so I want to use my art too. That that's my driving force, that's what's up.
Speaker 2:So you know I was watching a document. Well, I've watched a lot of documentaries, especially about artists, musicians or whatever, and what I realized is the difference between a lot of people that are successful and some people that give up is the support of their family. And being that I know your family, do you feel like that's made a difference? The support and the backing? Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1:First, I mean I've had to I've honestly had to like kind of tunnel vision things and not been able to communicate with my friends a whole lot, my family a whole lot and they, you know, whenever I'm able to come up for air and I talk to them, it's like we just hop right back into it and I appreciate the understanding there because, being three hours away, people don't realize how big of a change that is for your lifestyle the time zone.
Speaker 1:yeah, like it's like by the time I'm waking up, they had made midway through their day, and so trying to catch up with them during the week, like it's just a lot of stuff, but my family has been incredibly supportive behind me and it is, I mean, it's everything.
Speaker 2:His mom is an artist too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my mom's a seamstress, my sister is a hairstylist, my other sister is event planning and stuff. Like we're all like the art. They understand, they get it.
Speaker 2:They get it. That's what's up.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I'm going to play a game.
Speaker 2:We're going to play a game. Oh, you're gonna play a quick game and then we're gonna get into. I want to talk about some of your um pieces that you feel um has touched you. There's two pieces in particular that I want to talk about, but before that, let's have a little fun. We can break it up let's do it, it's called roll with it or bounce. I know you got a fiance, don't kill me, bro but and this is going to be In theory- you gotta do this in theory, or maybe not.
Speaker 2:I mean it is who knows we playing the game or theory? Alright. This my drink right, yep, that's yours. Go ahead, you want to crack?
Speaker 1:it open. I've never had this before.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Liquid death.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, it's just water, right, all right, that's my drink. Yep, that's yours.
Speaker 2:Go ahead, you want to crack it open. I've never had this before. Thank you, Liquid Death. Oh wait, it's just water. Right, it's water. Okay, I don't got time. Mango Chase Child. You know I fully support. You know I don't do skulls, but I'm going to drink this. No, it's good he.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Liquid Death.
Speaker 2:Liquid Death Alright, you ready.
Speaker 1:Mmhmm.
Speaker 2:Roll with it or bounce. Roll with it or bounce. They have over 10,000 followers On Instagram.
Speaker 1:Okay, shout out to you.
Speaker 2:Would you roll with it or bounce oh?
Speaker 1:I thought that I thought you were Talking about the company. I'm like, ooh, I can't Alright, so wait, ask the question again. Sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:They have over 10,000 followers on Instagram. What would it be about? Oh, like a dating name or something yeah like if you were dating somebody. Probably bounce, because they do too much.
Speaker 1:These micro-influences be acting up. I can't, I really can't.
Speaker 2:Okay, they want to pursue a long-distance relationship with you.
Speaker 1:I've done that before and it's a bounce.
Speaker 2:Bounce.
Speaker 1:It's a bounce. No, I need you here. Yeah, no, I need you here. It could work, but no they have a high sex drive. Oh, I'm rolling with that Scorpio, scorpio.
Speaker 2:Scorpio.
Speaker 1:They are too independent. Is that a?
Speaker 2:thing To be too independent.
Speaker 1:Is that a thing To be too independent? I want that Because you don't have to be up on the beat all the time. I like my zen, my namaste by myself sometimes.
Speaker 2:You don't like to be bothered you going to the library?
Speaker 1:Go ahead.
Speaker 2:They crack open eggs and place the eggshells back in the carton Bounce. I do that.
Speaker 1:Bounce, because that's not nasty.
Speaker 2:No, the egg boys oh just throw them in the garbage. Well, if you're cooking here's the thing If you're cooking, cooking, you don't got time to find the garbage. The garbage be over there, you can crack, put it in the cart.
Speaker 1:Okay that's different. But okay, if you're cooking and you're just trying to keep things organized, yeah, but if that's going back in the fridge afterwards, then it's a no.
Speaker 2:I'm bouncing, I'm bouncing. They don't like to spend money.
Speaker 1:I'm rolling with that.
Speaker 2:You're rolling with that. I'm cool, yeah.
Speaker 1:I love someone that saves.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna do the last two shout out to my baby bro they don't express their opinions enough oh, I'm bouncing.
Speaker 1:I love someone who is opinionated and who, like it's like I. I hate indecisiveness, right. I love someone who literally knows what they want. Going, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:like I can't okay, okay, well, that was a roll with it, or bounce.
Speaker 1:I like that. I got to buy that game. I like that All right?
Speaker 2:Well, let's jump into it. Okay, so there is a cover that you did for Lucky Day Mm-hmm. And explain to how that came about, and was that one of your first like celebrity clients in a sense?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was that. Lucky Day cover was a pivotal point for me in my career as an artist here in la. I feel like that gave me some stain, so and then after that it was like a ricochet effect of a lot of work that came afterwards. Shout out to natalie prosper, hey, net and paris hines, because they're the ones that gave me the job.
Speaker 2:They are friends only. They are the best, the absolute best humans on the planet outside of. Gave me the job.
Speaker 1:They are friends. Only, they are the best, the absolute best humans on the planet outside of what they actually do. They are super beautiful humans. Um, they say, hey, chris, we love your work, can you help us out with this? And so I did the whole basic rebrand of his album's called painted, and so got a painter to paint him. I did the cover, I did. He did a remix with babyface called Shudder for the soundtrack. What's the name of that movie? Ooh, what's the name of the movie? What's the name of the movie? Eddie Murphy and Halle Berry?
Speaker 2:Oh my God, oh, marcus, boomerang, yes, boomerang. I was like Eddie Murphy Halle.
Speaker 1:Berry. Yeah Well, they did a remake Was it a show?
Speaker 2:They did a remake. Was it a movie or a sitcom? I think it was a TV show.
Speaker 1:I think that came out. I don't know if it went for the show Lena Waithe right.
Speaker 2:She was the executive producer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, you know.
Speaker 2:I don't be up.
Speaker 1:But yeah, boomerang, it was that song, it was from that soundtrack and then they redid the song and it was just amazing. It was amazing I did that painting overnight because I needed to get it out real quick, and then we did graphic overlays and stuff and it was just a beautiful experience. But that was my first big splash in LA.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about guess your most recent. What was your favorite picture that you can remember taking? On the renaissance tour or with be good the foundation?
Speaker 1:I don't know if I have a favorite picture. I will say that that any content that I shot at oh, I actually do One I've seen I'm gonna be indecisive. There's a picture that I shot of Tyler Perry and he was praying over the folks when we did our luncheon in Atlanta. He was the guest there and just the power that just oozes out of that picture. I look at it all the time and I'm just like wow, I can't even believe I was a part of this moment. You know what I mean. And anything from those luncheons, because those luncheons we were helping small black businesses, people, we were connecting people within each area that we were in. So we went to Atlanta, we did one in Los Angeles, we did, we did about, I think, about 10 of them and then Be Good gave out $10,000 grants to each business, which was really dope. But just being able to experience and capture that love was just amazing for me.
Speaker 2:I loved it. I loved it. Well, if you had to label yourself a type of artist, what would you label it Like? What would you say your brand is?
Speaker 1:Are we talking about just painting? Are we talking?
Speaker 2:about overall. You ask Christopher Jordan, the artist.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't know what to call that.
Speaker 2:I'll make you think, dig deep.
Speaker 1:Oof. I'll just call myself an all-around artist, a person who I feel like I bleed art Like. Without art I would not survive, and so it is literally integral for me. It's crucial in my life. So that's the type of artist I am. I'm that artist that without art, I would not survive.
Speaker 2:Breathe again Right.
Speaker 1:Breathe again, and Breathe again. I'm not going to stop breathing. Yes, I'm that artist, I'm that artist. So what's?
Speaker 2:next for you? What's next for you? What's the next project? What are you excited about in the future?
Speaker 1:I'm excited to continue to scale our business and to continue to, you know, be at the Grammys, be at the Oscars, all these things. We also want to be in those spaces where we're creating art that is appreciated by millions, and so, you know, we'd like to get an Oscar or an Emmy for our work at some point in the near future. Yeah, we think a big bitch. We think a big bitch. Yeah, I'm excited about that, and I'm just I. I didn't get to really paint last year, so I'm really excited about that. I have like eight paintings in progress right now. So one thing I'm really excited about is, uh, throwing a gala called the chroma gala for black and brown artists, and so right now we're in the fundraising stages. That's supposed to be, uh, that's supposed to parallel freeze week you need a host.
Speaker 2:That's it, that's all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I I'm with my co-collaborator, nikita moore. Shout out to her. She's really amazing um art, loud la. They are um supporters of black, black and brown artists. She actually helped me sell my first painting. You know I would like to know her. She's really amazing, nikita. Yeah, you should. You should bring her on your show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should definitely bring her on your show. Tell me about it. I'm here for it. We all here for all the black and brownies.
Speaker 1:She's literally Especially the black women. The black women First of all. Black women. Black women have been holding me down since I've been in LA which game am I supposed to look at? That one, and I will do everything in my power to continue to hold y'all down. Through my art, through everything that I do, Black women raise me. Black women continue to pour into me. I love y'all so much. I just had to say that, Sorry, Because this year I'm very intentional too. About any time I see a black woman on the street I'm trying to compliment her. I'm pouring into y'all.
Speaker 2:I'm pouring into y'all we have, Like I'm pouring into y'all, I'm pouring into y'all, like we have to pour into each other, because we have to pour into our black men as well. Hello I appreciate that it's a revolving door. What we're here about, you know, you know. I say it all the time on my show and I continue to repeat it. That's what that's all about.
Speaker 2:It's not only spreading the lives through black women, but also continuing to highlight our black artists and it was very important to me to open it up to all black artists, our artist spotlights, because we need y'all. The world needs us.
Speaker 1:Period.
Speaker 2:And so that's very important. Like everybody has their mediums, like I like to talk, so this is my medium. I like to connect, this is my medium. I love when people are continuous, like that tree right, people just keep growing off these leaves and keep branching out and it's very important to build a proper community absolutely um absolutely, and that's really about it because I was sorry.
Speaker 1:I was sad at first because I was like she ain't gonna have no men's on here and I want to talk no, it is so funny about it like no, because you was highlighting the black queen. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2:I was like yeah like I'll give you know, I'll give you a tidbit, you know, I just didn't feel black women were appreciated in la. No, and I was like, if I'm going to be given a black, a black, if I'm going to be given a platform, the one thing I do know I know I talk about is being a black woman in america yeah.
Speaker 2:And also I'm also an artist. So I was just like I also want my artist on here, and not only do I want my women artists, I want all black artists. And because it's important, it's very important to me. It's always been very important to me to connect and link people and spread love into people and show how great people are to other people. That I know it's. That's always been a passion of mine, so I had to. You know when you, when you create something, sometimes you have to revert and redirect and that's what I directed on and I had a list.
Speaker 2:That was like I rolled it out I was just like I know too many amazing people, y'all gotta come on this show and I could not do this. I could not do this with my best friend like I, like I could not, I could not. You know, we've had late talks about our dreams and our goals.
Speaker 1:That's why I was like this interview. This has been a long time coming. We've been talking about this for a year. This has y'all. This has had so many iterations. This girl, this has been yeah, so um, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, I want to say thank you is there anything else that the the people should know about chris? Because, I was about to say chris titty paints. All right, is there anything else you want the world to know about chris for jewelry?
Speaker 1:um, I just want y'all to watch out, because 2024 is going to be a really big year. Um, I'm calling it. It's a big year for my art. It's a big year just for black art in general and, um, you're gonna see a lot more of me. I don't usually don't even talk like this, so this is my first. It's like a little cherry pop, because I don't be doing interviews and stuff, so I definitely want to get this shock. We we're going to, so this will be a lot more talking. Um, what's going to see? Amazing art? Um, if you guys are not already following me, you can follow me at Chris Teddy paints. I don't know if I'm jumping ahead, sorry. Um, I'm going to wait then, cause she's the host.
Speaker 2:Sorry, okay, um, I like to leave a message To either your younger self or the people out there in the world that you want to know. If there was any message that you want to give to the young Chris About moving forward, pursuing your dreams, your goals and living in your truth, what?
Speaker 1:would you? Say Fear Following faith.
Speaker 2:Fear Follow faith. Triple no, quadruple Four no, what would you say? Fear Following faith. Fear Follow faith. Triple no, quadruple Four.
Speaker 1:Quadruple F's. Yes, quadruple F's. Seriously, I used to be so afraid to just jump out and do stuff, but really leaning into your intuition and trusting yourself and your art and your abilities. I wish my 10 year old self knew that all right.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you so much, christopher jordan, for joining the show um. How can the people find you?
Speaker 1:the people can find me on all the things. So, uh, on instagram at chris teddy paints I think I'm on Twitter is I couldn't get the S, so it's Chris Teddy Paint, and then on TikTok is Chris Teddy Paints, it's all you'll find me. Just type in Chris Teddy Paint and I'll pop up somewhere well, there you have it, guys.
Speaker 2:Thanks again for showing up and showing out for us on. That's it. That's All. If you have any questions and you want to reach out to this amazing artist you know his handles We'll have his handles on the page Like subscribe, share, do all the things and that's it.
Speaker 1:That's all.
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