The NKCRLSN Interview - Vision Vocal
So, your Instagram is @NKCRLSN, but what is your "title"? Artist, photographer, etc.?
- I would like to say that i'm an artist, just to kind of umbrella my many talents haha because I do photography and I also paint.
Whats your photo account?
- It's @NKCRLSNPHOTO .
What got you into art?
- Um, I enjoyed art when I was little but I really got into art when Lizzie and I signed up for art classes downtown. We started doing acrylic classes on Tuesday nights after school and that's actually how I became really good friends with Lizzie, we did art together and became close.
Yes! That was back in 7th or 8th grade.
- Yes, well we were friends before that but art is what really brought us together.
If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
- I would probably be Princess Leia or Enfys Nest from Solo Star Wars
Why?
- Leia because she's the only main Star Wars character thats a girl and she kind of shows everyone up. Enfys Nest because she's so bad a**.
You're on death row, whats your last meal?
- Probably falafel. I love falafel so much.
Coolest thing you've done recently?
- This is really lame but I made ratatouille haha.
Yes! I saw that, it looked good
- Ya, I made it how they do in the movie!
What is something you are most proud of?
- This is small but when I tried out for the school musical I was really nervous and the year before I was thinking about doing it but I was really anxious and I didn't want to be on stage. I mean I wanted to be on stage because I thought theater would be good for me. So I tried out this year and it was so cool because I met so many new people and I had a lot of fun doing it.
Who is your inspiration or what inspires you?
- Movies really inspire me. Star Wars is my favorite thing in the world. Whenever I watch Star Wars I always get re-inspired, or whenever I watch superhero movies it always makes me feel motivated to like do good, but also try my hardest.
What would your auto biography be called, and why?
- I feel like I think about this all the time, not what I would title it but what I would write in it, but I don't know what I would title it. This is deep but I feel like the journey to finding yourself never ends so I don't think there is a word you could say to sum it all up. The book would be about finding myself though.
Who is somebody you would like to work with in the future?
- I think about this all the time, I write about it in my journal. I don't want to sound basic or anything, saying this is going to ruin all my cool points haha. Well I just said cool points so that already ruins all my "points" haha, but I would like to work with Timothée Chalamet. He is really talented and I feel we're really similar. He loves Kid Cudi and he listens to the same artists as I. I also love Jake Gyllenhaal he's extremely talented and he does theater too. I also love Willow Smith too. She's really cool. She just herself, which I like a lot.
What advice would you give to your younger self?
- Well when I was little I always was myself I guess, or trying to be myself, I never tried to act like others around me. I guess in middle school since I played soccer and I was athletic, I was always trying to fit that stereotype of being an athletic person I guess but towards eighth grade I started to separate myself and become who I really am. So maybe I would just tell myself to not conform to other people, just because you play soccer doesn't mean you're like this athletic person, I don't know haha. I feel like we had no fear when we were younger we would just go out and do whatever we wanted.
If the whole world was listening, what would you say?
- "Be nice". I know it's really simple, but kindness is so contagious and nowadays, I was just thinking that people these days are so rude and if you give someone a nasty look for maybe just cutting you off or something, it could ruin their whole mood or day, but if you think about it, if everyone in the world was just kind to each other in social settings then everything would be so different. I feel very blessed for how my mom raised me because I feel like my mom is one of the nicest people ever and I feel like she has taught me so much.
All photos taken by Vision Vocal
Interview date : June 22 2018