My creative path

So I was originally an athlete projected to go pro in baseball following the 2020 season at Compton college following my full recovery from a rotator cuff injury I had going into my freshman year. Baseball was my main passion and outlet for expression, no matter what I was going through in my day that gave me a sense of meaning. My school had gotten into a fight after a 13 inning game that ended at 12:20am which I ended up getting suspended a week and a half for then COVID canceled the rest of our season and I was left to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Sports had played such a fundamental role in how I navigated the world and without that in my life I felt lost. I had always been into clothing however and stumbled into a seminar on e-commerce which I really got into around March of last year. I decided I wanted to start my own clothing brand which I had tried to do back in high school but ended up not going through all the way with it because at time I had no graphic design skills and neither did anyone I knew. My brand started as a print on demand thing where I outsourced my clothes to be made by someone else in a warehouse but as I was going through samples I looked at the clothes and told myself I could do better so I purchased a heat press and vinyl cutter to put my own designs on clothes and as time went on my ideas for my clothes got more intricate and I realized that I wanted what I make to have a deeper meaning so I purchased a sewing and embroidery machine and drove 2 hours to pick it up at 10pm in Palm Springs in crazy wind read the manual about 15 times over page to page for 3 days then started experimenting and getting to work. I already had a basic idea of how sewing worked from my childhood patching up holes I had in my socks and shorts from being active all the time so once I figured out how the machine worked it was easy to go from there. My style in the clothes I make currently is cut and sew and I thrift a bunch of pieces of clothes that I find unique or interesting and I put them together in a creative way. The first cut and sews I did were tshirts with cut up bandanas on them, I called the collection “colors are subjective” and it comes from growing up in LA and literally experiencing every type of person along the way and as I got older colors really started to have heavier meanings to them. There’s been times walking to the liquor store right by my old house where I’d get pressed by people outside asking where im from who I went to elementary with and it was like bro you know me. Then they’d be like oh damn wassup but it was always off a wrong fit at the wrong place at the wrong time scenario but the reaction triggered off what was being worn was a result of those peoples lives they lived growing up. Like red has its own meaning to everyone same as blue pink purple and so on, it’s subjective to your own experiences in how u regard it so I made this collection to show a freedom of expression and interpretation amongst the color patterns n how everything goes together there’s black white n grey tees in this collection. I also have been doing custom work and 1 of 1 pieces to show my form of expression to the world, all of the color dyes on my clothes are done by me as well. One of my favorites recently is a hoodie I made where the bottom half is the top of a pair of jeans with a stacked denim pocket over the original hoodie one.