Vlad Bazgă on Life, Lessons & Legacy

We recently had the chance to connect with Vlad Bazgă and have shared our conversation below.

Good morning Vlad, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? Are you walking a path—or wandering?
I think I’m definitely wandering. I believe that in the art industry, the most important thing is to explore and wander through different ways and not stick to a path. The most beautiful thing about art is that you have this freedom to create anything you want. This strong desire to express yourself and to be free goes hand in hand with wandering around creatively. Only when you wander around you can be amazed and experience new perspectives. Walking a path means that the path has been laid out already by someone else.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Vlad Bazgă. I’m from Romania and I make art. I like to discover myself and the world through art, no matter the medium used. For now, I worked in film, theatre, music and writing and I cannot wait to explore more. I always knew that I was going to work in the creative industry, even though after high school, I turned towards studying international law.
Now, I have just finished my studies at the University of Groningen, majoring in theatre and film. I’m constantly looking for inspiration everywhere and every time, and I’m really excited to share with you my new projects that I’ve been working on since the last interview!

Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What was your earliest memory of feeling powerful?
I don’t know if “powerful” is the right wording because it implies I’m full of power, which I am not. But I’m not saying that I’m weak either. I have some power! The first time I realized I had some power when it came to making art was when I actually did not know that I was making art. My first memories are from my childhood, more specifically, 3rd grade, when I used to write short stories and poems. I remember my Grandma used to write it on the computer for me, and I was telling her what to write. I was a little dictator because I remember that I did not let her have any creative input. She was only correcting it grammatically. After I wrote a bunch of them, I gave them to one of my teachers from school, after she promised that she is going to include them in a children’s book.
After that moment, I realized that my work can have powers, because I’ve never heard from that teacher again. That means power!

When did you stop hiding your pain and start using it as power?
I think expressing yourself in any way, for example, the way you dress or the way you speak, can be a mode of creating art. I think this creates more power by showing your true self, instead of hiding your emotions. You don’t hide it, you expose it in a cool way. I realized this when I started acting. After I saw this power in acting, I started to associate this idea with everything. There is a need in everyone to create.

So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Is the public version of you the real you?
There is an Instagram Vlad Bazgă, there is a YouTube Vlad Bazgă, there is a TikTok Vlad Bazgă, there’s a music man named Bazgă and there are more, even a interviewed Vlad Bazgă. All of us are working together and get a long.

Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. If immortality were real, what would you build?
I would definitely make a video of me building a huge sculpture in the shape of a little hunchback man crying, holding towards the video camera a photo of me painting the end of a road that leads to a cliff.
I think what I expressed here might be my Magnum opus. If i would be immortal, I would have time to make this happen.

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