We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Taylor Morrison. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Taylor below.
Taylor, so great to be with you and I think a lot of folks are going to benefit from hearing your story and lessons and wisdom. Imposter Syndrome is something that we know how words to describe, but it’s something that has held people back forever and so we’re really interested to hear about your story and how you overcame imposter syndrome.
I haven’t entirely overcome imposter syndrome. I am very inexperienced in comparison to my peers in the Central Florida art community. I believe that it is completely natural to have insecure thoughts about your art from time to time. Personally, I battle these types of thoughts by being very proud of the creative concepts that I can come up with. The execution and my skills have continued to improve as I go. I had a friend in college, Tony, tell me something along the lines of: “You can’t do something consistently and get worse.” This has stuck with me since. I stick to making what I enjoy to make, as I get better at making it. At that rate, it makes those thoughts a lot less scary.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I’m a digital artist that creates with a focus on pop culture, and nature (from time to time). I’m just a mega nerd that enjoyed watching tv, movies, & music videos so much that I couldn’t help myself but visually represent my love for these pieces of media. I work in a corporate restaurant from Monday-Thursday for 40 hours and I spend my weekends at community vending events such as food trucks in Downtown Sanford, Jazz in the Park, Tom and Dan’s Bad at Business Beer Festival, etc. During the week, I make art in the 1–3-hour block in the time before I report to my shifts during the week. For the last year, I have been submitting art to most of the themes of the art shows that reside at Deviant Wolfe Brewing and Hourglass Brewing (Longwood), and I will continue in 2024. If you’re interested in when my next event is, I update the bio of my Instagram with the next scheduled event!
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
In my journey my most important skill has been my retention of the most trivial pop culture fun facts. All jokes aside, my optimism/outlook and my time in the service/food industry are the pieces of me that has made this journey the most successful. In creative work and especially vending it, there are many losses to the few big wins. In my opinion, I believe it is healthy to think of vending your art more akin to gambling than thinking of it as a job. You’re betting on your work with what will be a mostly indifferent public. The connections you make with the art-loving public makes it all worth it, in my opinion.
Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?
Outside of the immense amount of support they have displayed during my life, I was overwhelmed by the effort of my entire family to keep this silly little operation afloat when I broke my hip in a skateboarding accident. Along with financial support, my parents made all of my events happen with me for 3 months when that was my only avenue to make money! I shouldn’t have been able to sell my art on crutches and they made that happen!
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @timo.art
- Facebook: @timo.art
- Other: TikTork: @timodot
