PJ Richardson

It sounds so cynical, because it is, I'm really proud of it, and it was really just a beautiful experience, especially with friends, but there's always kind of a learn to love it moment, and that's when you're like, oh, yeah, you see it for the great, for the joy of it, you know, and so it was just cool.

There's no words.

It's in the same way that I see my friends standing on stage like Ross earlier and showing his work or, you know, Miguel earlier and just seeing all that.

It's the same.

It's just like, you're just like, ah.

Hell yeah.

I mean, I feel with a vengeance so strongly about this and how it represents off and I think represents everybody that's here and everybody I've been inspired by because I think alone, especially when we're younger artists,

We ask for permission to be creative or to be a part of things.

But then you have people like Seth Epstein from Los York.

He didn't talk about this, but he was my very first boss.

Was he?

Yeah, yeah.

And he created this culture to not only not ask for permission, but to bring your courage and audacity and just shoot for the moon.

It was the culture he created creatively that set the course of my entire career to just...

go as boldly as I possibly could.

And then I think just all the rest of them, curiosity and acceptance and gratitude, curiosity and acceptance particularly is from friends.

I think the biggest thing that I come, when I stand here at OFF and look at these talks, you're like,

There's no magic button that cures all of the challenges, but you're like, holy shit, that person's going through the same thing, and that person too, and you're heroes, and you're like, man, it's very, very cathartic to go home being like, okay, so other people are too.

That gives me fuel to keep just grinding through and making rad shit.

And then the gratitude is just being here together with friends of every shape and seeing everybody