Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Noah Burgan. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Noah, looking forward to learning from your journey. You’ve got an amazing story and before we dive into that, let’s start with an important building block. Where do you get your work ethic from?
My mom is one of the strongest people I know. Throughout my childhood, she worked to make ends meet through sickness and health while continuing to be a beacon of light and a source of strength for me. I feel like she taught me so much about what it means to be a woman, and this created such a strong foundation for me to build on. Seeing my mom navigate life taught me so much about perseverance, tenacity, and hard work. I learned to adapt and problem solve, fail and try again, never give up and reach my goals. I learned about courage and found my voice through my work and creativity. Growing up I have struggled so much with feeling worthy and to be seen but through her eyes and unconditional love, I am affirmed and know that I am worth being heard and seen.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
My mom is one of the strongest people I know. Throughout my childhood growing up she worked to make ends meet through sickness and health while still continuing to be a beacon of light and source of strength for me. I feel like she taught me so much about what it means to be a woman, and this created such a strong foundation for me to build on. Seeing my mom navigate life taught me so much about perseverance, tenacity, and hard work. I learned to adapt and problem solve, failing and trying again, never giving up and reaching my goals. I learned about courage and found my voice through my work and creativity. Growing up I have struggled so much with feeling worthy and to be seen but through her eyes and unconditional love I am affirmed and know that I am worth being heard and seen.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
There is truly so much I need to express and grow from but being a young woman who has always had strong emotions I feel like I have been able to live in the world through a different perspective.. I think throughout my adolescence I was consistently shamed for who I was and every part of me was unacceptable because of the shame I felt. All of my emotions and feelings or anything even remotely feminine i was bilited for who i truly was. I look back and I realize how proud I am now of those aspects of myself and being able to feel something so powerful. What I learned living as a teenage girl is the power in being sensitive and emotional. I learned the power of a strong voice and the courage to speak. I learned about grace and love. I believe being able to learn and grow during my transition has helped to feel so incredibly powerful. Transition and growing up has impacted so many parts of my life and allowed me to care and love the people around me. It has taught me to not become jaded or hardened by the world. I have learned to keep moving forward even when things are so difficult, to continue and never give up. If I were to think about any advice I could offer is to tell someone the power of being able to speak and say when you feel uncomfortable but also when you need time to just be alone . Being able to set these boundaries helps you to find the space to truly be you
Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?
A challenge that I’ve been facing recently, is being able to feel like my art can take up space I have a constant fear that what I’m creating or what I’m doing isn’t good enough or that in the future when I get out of college, I won’t be able to be successful enough to make my living pursuing art, creating has always been my dream and art is something that makes me feel so incredibly powerful and happy, and excited to continue to tell my story, but recently I have just been struggling so much with what people think about what I create and because of that anxiety I haven’t been creating. I haven’t been able to have the energy to create new pieces just because I’m so petrified in the fear that what I’m doing might not ever be good enough, i think so many artists face this fear but I’m still learning how to overcome it.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://noahburgan.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_noah_burgan_art/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-burgan/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoahBurgan2
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Noah_Burgan
- Other: my online shop:https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/noahburgan/
Image Credits
in the Personal Photo segment before the one about artwork the black and white photo of me smiling in a suit is taken by https://www.instagram.com/alightphotog/
