Patrick

"I knew I wanted to do weird art things and make games and play, uh, I wasn't sure where that fit."

"I'm trying to like balance all of that on a day-to-day basis in my roles."

"It's like some art, some business, some like trying to bring qualitative experience to other people."

"Photoshop skills, Excel spreadsheet skills, basic level design, but also organization skills have always helped me in every job."

"What I enjoy most is me growing as a guide. Seeing how each student helps me grow and understand different dimensions of other people's experience."

"When you're juggling a lot of stuff, you can get so focused on the juggling that you aren't just having a picnic or chilling out and taking in the world."

"I get to almost like there's these like back doors from one dimension of culture to the another, and I have the key to them"

"Most people want others because that person is gonna bring something they don't already have to the table."

"It's okay to feel like you don't know what you're doing all the time, and that's natural to being consistently curious."

"working at art Spaces, you know, like applying for, for jobs, you know, at at cool artist run spaces that have financial support"

"They're usually where the more original ideas come from, where your voice as an artist is cultivated"

"So I think like, yeah, really being, choosing to be where you are and like create community is like one of the most important things."

"I think what causes friction between us as human beings within institutions, within roles is when what other people expect of us is not what we produce, and they don't see that as a positive thing."