Artistic and creative careers are among the most rewarding, but they also come with unique challenges. We asked some of the city’s best creatives to tell us why they choose to pursue a creative career.

Andrés Monnier | Sculptor & Business Man

I guess that from my little perspective, once we arrive to this human experience we are conditioned on what to believe, what to feel and what to be. Having an artistic or creative career it’s my way to defy the systems and play the game, with many twists. Like a Trojan horse in my little fantasy… Mostly we live in automatic on our lives. The world we live in has a specific design and we are teach to follow the invisible and imaginary rules of the system of each civilization. When we are born we are assigned with a name and based on the geographical location we were born and the epoch of time, we are surrounded by a series of sociocultural conditionings (religion, culture, nationality, stereotypes, constructs) that dictate the way we have to perceive our existence. Read more>>

Durando Pinder | Artist & police officer

Growing up for me I was brought up in a space of comic books and anime which if you look at my art now you would see the expression of inker for comics. I started with drawing Batman as a kid and progressed on in copying comic characters which I still do time to time. My primary school teacher gave me a picture of the white house and told me to draw which I did and she prescribed me to the art teacher in high school to guide me. I then continued until the next teacher took me on and placed me in art competitions, I took what I knew and understood and placed 3rd against painters using markers the other kids were not happy. But I did not care the drive continued on making me want to crush them even more, but took the advice of family members resulted in me putting it down. Read more>>

Luke Kruger-Aimone | Musician, Singer and Producer

It comes down to having the same effect on someone else that my inspirations had on me. When hit something I like in the music I’m making, it’s not just exciting because I think it’s cool- it’s exciting because I feel something that I can share with other people. I’m making music me, but at the same time, it’s for everyone, and if I don’t feel that I can connect with other people through my music, I don’t really think I’m doing my job. Read more>>