Tuesday, November 12, 2013

David 'Stickman' Higgiins

"WHEN I DRUM I WRITE, WHEN I WRITE I DRUM" 

DAVID IS AN ARTIST FROM A AFRICAN/BRITISH/CARIBBEAN CULTURE WHO WAS BORN IN LANCASHIRE. HE HAVE INVESTED YEARS RESEARCHING AND DEVELOPING THE HIDDEN VOICES OF HIS IDENTITY. HE IS A WORLD CLASS DRUMMER, POET, ACTOR, EDUCATOR AND CONCEPTUAL ARTIST. IN THE LECTURE HE SHOWED US THAT OBJECTS HE'S GOT AND HAVE BEEN COLLECTING FOR YEARS HAVE BEEN REALLY IMPORTANT TO HIM AND ALL OF THEM HAVE SOME SORT OF STORY BEHIND THEM. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT DAVID IS THAT HE HAS A LOT OF ENERGY AND DISPLAYS ALL HIS WORK IN VERY CREATIVE WAY. HE KEPT US AWAKE ALL THE WAY TROUGH THE LECTURE, HE MADE US THINK ABOUT STUFF. ALSO WHEN HE ASKED US TO THINK ABOUT A SMELL FROM OUR CHILDHOOD, THE SMELL THAT ALWAYS HAVE AND ALWAYS WILL REMIND US ABOUT OUR CHILDHOOD. FOR ME THE SMELL WOULD BE A SMELL OF RAIN. AS I WAS LITTLE I ALWAYS LOVED LO BE OUT IN RAIN WITH FRIENDS IN SUMMER TIME WHEN IT WAS HOT OUTSIDE. AND WE USED TO JUMP INTO THE PUDDLES WITHOUT ANY INHIBITIONS. HE LIKES TO PLAY WITH OBJECTS AND PUT THEM TOGETHER TO MAKE ARTWORK OR ANOTHER OBJECTS. HE BROUGHT A LOT OF OBJECTS, MEMORIES AND WORDS TO THE LECTURE WHICH MADE US ALL INTERESTED IN WHAT IS THAT OBJECT WHERE IT'S FROM AND STUFF LIKE THAT. HE IS A VERY IMAGINATIVE POET BECAUSE HE SHAPES WORDS IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND THE HE MAKES POEMS WHICH ARE INTRIGUING AND WORTH TO LISTENING TO THEM. THEY WOULD NOT SOUND THE SAME IF I READ IT MY SELF, THEY ONLY SOUND PERFECT WHEN HE READS THEM. DAVID HAVE DONE A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE EXPLORING AND QUESTIONING ASPECTS OF IDENTITY. 

"CULTURE IS A PRODUCT OF PEOPLE'S HISTORY. BUT ALSO REFLECTS THAT HISTORY AND EMBODIES A WHOLE SET OF VALUES BY WHICH PEOPLE VIEW THEMSELVES AND THEIR PLACE IN TIME SPACE"
- NGUGI WA THIONGE 1981

DAVID'S POEMS, AND THINGS HE SAYS MAKE'S US QUESTION, CHALLENGE, EXPLAIN WHAT DO WE SMELL, TASTE, HEAR, TOUCH AND RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENCE, SIMILARITIES, THE EXTREME NOTIONS OF TIME AND SPACE. WHERE DO WE BELONG? WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WE ALL HAVE ROOTS AND CULTURE. HE SHOWS US THAT ALL PEOPLE/OBJECTS/EVERYTHING THAT LIVES IS IMPORTANT. 

"ALL LANGUAGE IS SPOKEN RHYTHMS."

I WENT ON HIS WEBSITE TO RESEARCH SOME OF HIS WORK AND I'VE READ SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HIM AND THERE WAS ONE THING HE SAID WHICH HAVE VERY CAUGHT MY EYE, "I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, ABILITIES AND BACKGROUNDS, FACILITIES AND DIRECTING THEIR EXPRESSIVE ART ACTIVITIES. SHARING AND ENCOURAGING THE BEST IN EVERYONE THROUGH THE VARIOUS CREATIVE PROCESSES THAT I EMPLOY" - THIS SHOWS HOW MUCH HE CARES ABOUT PEOPLE AND IT IS VERY INSPIRING HOW ONE PERSON CAN DO SO MUCH FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE. HE IS VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT HE DOES AND ALL HIS PROJECTS. 

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