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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.