![]() With Rues guidance and support from my family and friends I managed to successfully exhibit my first body of work inspired by my recent school trip to Italy. At Cafespresso, a local coffee shop, I had tasted my first bite of success. My senior year had come and over coffee she asked me if I was interested in having a one-man art show. Sharing with her my newly self-accepted sexuality as a young gay man, her acceptance and guidance got me through the rigors of high school and helped me maintain my passions for art as a base for myself. She urged me to be the best I could be and pushed me to do more than I thought I could. I saw her as mentor and also a fairy god mother. ![]() I had an amazing art teacher, Rue Paulette, who took me under her wing and recognized my full potential. At least I thought it was until I looked at again a few years ago and understand now what abstract truly means.įast forward to high school is when I really started to focus on my painting. My first master piece was at six years old of a peacock. This worked very effectively until I got hungry of course. All my mother had to do was plop some Crayola water color and some computer paper to babysit me for a bit, the 90’s iPad if you will. Amongst the copious ways to keep my mind occupied outside and building forts inside was– tahh dahh– painting. As you can tell, being bored wasn’t an option. Whenever I told my mother I was bored she would say things like “Oh you’re bored? Well there are plenty of things to do, like clean your room, or take out the trash or rake the yard.” Only to have her realize moments later she was standing there alone talking to herself for had I mysteriously disappeared into the walls. ![]() Playing pretend and using my imagination was the prime matrix of escape for me. My mother, Chase, is one of those mothers that always told me to go outside and play which I really appreciate looking back now. With that I had to do a lot of time thinking of ways to entertain myself and I mean a lot of time thinking. Before I even knew what ART actually was, I did know one thing, I was the only child. ![]() The cliché statement of “I’ve always had a paint brush in my hands ever since I can remember,” is so true it’s pathetic. Once upon a time, my story begins with my roots raised and born in Richmond, VA. So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. Even if the demographic criterion no longer has the same binding force that it previously did, it cannot be ignored and, to the extent that an employer relies on it, the “Barnard principle” can be applied across the board.Today we’d like to introduce you to Zach Barnard. For a workforce to be equitably representative, it was held, there should be equitable representation not only of black employees (as opposed to white) in an overall sense, but also of each category of black persons (African, Indian, coloured) within the workforce. But does the same apply to black people, who suffered the brunt of apartheid and are the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action? The “Barnard principle” refers to the ruling of the Constitutional Court in South African Police Service v Solidarity obo Barnard 2014 (10) BCLR 1195 (CC) to the effect that an employer could refuse promotion to a white woman because persons of her demographic category were already over-represented at the occupational level in question. ![]()
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