Pakistan Speaks

Introduction: The person interviewed is Kenny Irwin. He is an amazing designer, photographer, in short a jubilant artist of his own. Online he is available at Flickr.

So here we present his interview with Pakistan Speaks.

We found you at Flickr, but how you use it for yourself ?
I have used Flickr for three years now uploading more over 20,000 photographs and 1000s of artworks of all kinds.

Proud to be Pakistani designer?
Art is the profession of my life and when I am not doing art in my free time I am doing art. I am grateful to be a designer, artist and innovator.

Reason?
Art is my passion which I have been doing since the youngest of ages. I am a multimedia artist and photographer. I do photography, drawing, CGI, sculpture, installation art, painting, musicVideo, inventing and much much more.

Now tell us about your online life.
I do my art blogging daily on Flickr in a continuing saga called the Perfectlymadebirds Epics. The series updates weekly and frequently daily with another art episode and story where thePakistani Starfleet are heroes regularly saving the galaxy from villainy, tyranny and any other galactic oppressors such as the Intergalactic dOve Invaders as well as exploring space in the most daringand adventurous way meeting new forms of alien life along the way.

Any amazing or unforgettable moment with your online life?
Every day I feel is as unforgettable as the next as I am able to create a new artwork and share it with the world.

With you offline life?
Having the opportunity to help a very talented Pakistani photographer friend in Pakistan get a new lens for his camera as well as establishing pro accounts from my art earnings for other talented pakistanis to also help get their work promoted too..

What is your inspiration for such a nice work of yours?
I love to share the fruits of my labor with the world and help inspire and ignite the dreams of others too. I I love to promote the beautiful heritage of Pakistan culture in a timeless and colorful way as well as a traditional yet mind blowing and imaginative, futuristic way. I also in hopeswith my art I will be able to help dispel many negative media myths about many eastern societies.

What tools you use?
I use Photoshop, Corel painter, Sony DSC-H9, Bic Ball point pens, Macintosh computers, Dewalt drill, jigsaw, glue gun, Wagner power painter, Kiln, Ceramics wheel, microwave, welder, Canvas

What is best thing in your C.V?
The artwork I like the most that I have uploaded recently might be the “Tug of War” http://www.flickr.com/photos/kennyirwin/2356491639/

Rate your work with1-10.
I would say a 10 in my own in opinion however I leave it up to others to decide for themselves.

Tell us about your association with any non-profit projects online.
I do not have any association with a non-profit at this time .

What is the future of your work ?
I hope to get my work shown in Pakistan and the UAE. I am also seeking pakistani collaboration in hopes I will be able to create a series of Lollywood blockbuster films, cartoons, comics etc based off the Perfectlymadebirds Epics and dOvestar Chronicles.

Social web tools like face book, handy in Pakistan ?
I use MYSPACE, YOUTUBE and now REDBUBBLE which helps you sell art online with out a membership fee. They get paid by proceeds From the sales of your art. My Myspace site is www.myspace.com/kennyirwin or www.myspace.com/kennyirwinbicpenart. The new Redbubble site can be seen at www.redbubble.com/people/dovetastic. The Flickr site can be seen at www.flickr.com/perfectlymadebirds. The Youtube site can been seen at www.youtube.com/dovetastic.

Are you a fond of reading books?
Share some!I like the “Gem Hunter” by Gary W. Bowersox. My art installations have been featured in Mal Sharp’s “Weird Rooms” by Pomegranit Press.

Give the readers your final words who may like to hear something from you?
“Ever since I was very little eastern culture and beliefs have been a part of me and who I am at the same time I have relentlessly dreamed of the cosmos day and night in all of it’s possibilities. I dream of distant places and worlds in the not so distant future and a universe that is infinite teaming with life of all sorts just not on Earth but sprinkled on countless worlds across the vast reaches of space. This is fused with my boundless love of eastern cultures particularly Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Gulf states. I was told from a very early age that developing nations must westernize to modernize otherwise they cannot develop. In my heart of hearts I do not believe this is true and that we can have a world of eastern and western ideas, thought and exchange of education strengthening and enbracing our different cultures of this planet with more to offer to what we have achieved to whom ever our distantly located brothers and sisters may be in the far reaches of space we will probably meet someday. I am a promoter and great advocate of Eastern cultures ancient and wondrous and beautiful in every way that I feel must be preserved, cherished, protected and encouraged to succeed. Imagine a world of highly advanced eastern and western civilization coexisting with everything to offer each other? I believe it is possible and that human society should not dissolve into a globalized generic urban sprawled dystopian mass gone nowhere with a forgotten heritage. Some nations today still hold strong characteristics of identity especially Pakistan. Above all I have felt tied to this land from a very early age. There is something so marvelous about this land and its a land that I have known ever since I can remember. I have dreamed about it in such vivid detail as if I had been there in another time. The Mountains, the trees, the people, the coast, the ancient marvelous and cultural wonders are mind boggling yet it seems so untouched and pure in many areas still. Pakistani influence is a large part of my artwork combined with future times and places mixed with a multitude of other societies on the planet showing what can be possible if we put our minds too it. I believe eastern societies can advance in an eastern ways because they are truly wonderful and on par with any achievements the West has done. Really, two hemispheres, but one world united. My work delves into all kinds of subjects in an ever unfolding universe as humanity continues to discover, learn and explore. It is what we don’t know yet in our curiosities that compels us to have reached this point of civilization by what we already do know from what we have learned.”

Select your best created piece and any give away design for Pakspeaks.com?
I love this one:

You are welcome to use any of my work on your website as long as copyright is acknowledged, your use is non-commercial and you credit the artist. Jazak’allah khair for everything you are doing here. I think pakspeaks.com will be very successful, insha’allah.

Kenny Irwin dedicated this to Pakspeaks.com. He consider this artwork one of his best to date.