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JOHN YANG: Kennady Bob
is a Los Angeles based
artist who expresses
herself through both large

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scale paintings and small
sketches. After experiencing
great loss early in her life,

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Kennady found that through art,
she could process the feelings
she struggled to put into words.

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Tonight, she shares her Brief
But Spectacular take on letting
the colors say it for you.

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KENNADY BOB, Los Angeles
Based Artist: I, early on
in my artistic process,
realize that artists

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healing, its therapeutic.
Some experiences on my
head have been too much
for my heart to bear. And

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the ways that I'm able to
clear myself of that is
through allowing the colors
to express it for me.

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Me and my twin sister,
Kendall, our mother passed away
when we were six years old.

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She had us when she was
37, she passed away six
years after that. So
there were a lot of things

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that she looked forward
to experiencing in her
life that she just wasn't
able to accomplish.

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Me and my sister gets to
live through the things
that she dreamed of doing.

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My mother is present me,
every day that I walk
throughout the streets

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of LA. I'm really grateful
to carry her with me and to
share this city with her.

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The summer 2016, that was my
first experience sharing my
artwork in LA. I was writing a

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high from the art show. I was
sobered up really quick when
I couldn't make the rent,

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and I started working full
time. I started carrying around
a little pocket sketchbook

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because up until then I had been
making larger paintings. And
it takes time and energy to be

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able to sit with a
painting of that size. but
I just didn't have that
time to myself anymore.

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The time that I was working
in that little sketchbook
really gave me the basis for my

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style and for a lot of
the themes and motifs that
are present in my work
to this day because they

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really helped me to process and
to understand everything that
was going on under the surface.

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The ways that my emotions
come through my artwork is
primarily through the use of

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color. I've always drawn
a connection between the
spectrums of the rainbow,

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to the literal, you know,
spectrum of emotion that
goes on within my body,

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everything that's expressed
through color, and through line
and shade. All of those things

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are expressions of the
parts of my mind and the
parts of my heart that
I don't feel I will ever

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be able to put into words. So
that's why it's so hard for me
to put it into words right now.

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It allows me to clear my body to
clear my mind of anything that's
lingering under the surface that

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needs to come out. If I
could say one thing to my
mother, I would just tell

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her that I love her. And that
I hope that I'm making her
proud. My name is Kennady

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Bob and this is my Brief But
Spectacular take on letting
the color say it for you.

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JOHN YANG: You can
watch more Brief But
Spectacular videos online
at pbs.org/newshour/brief.