Story

Play me some music, and you’ve captured my attention. I wish that I had the talent to create music, but I’ve never been very good at playing instruments. I joined the percussion section of the band in elementary school, and that’s the closest I got to being musically inclined. Learning to play an instrument was incredibly hard. The musical gene doesn’t exactly exist in my family line. 

Some things don’t come easily to all people, but as the saying goes, practice makes perfect. If I were to keep trying, practicing over and over, I imagine I wouldn’t be half bad at playing an instrument! Only, I shifted my love for art down a different path: writing. I wasn’t very good with my words at the beginning, but I learned to keep trying. To keep going despite the difficulty of learning a new talent, and here we are.

That’s the intention behind this extraordinary set: to push forward. Sometimes, we’re going to be faced with challenges that make us want to give up (like learning a new language or instrument), and while it’s easier to just quit, it’s more rewarding to tackle the obstacle and allow the experience of trying, learning, and conquering to shape you into someone who persevered. I hope each of these incredibly talented monsters motivates you to persist in whatever challenge you’re facing.

Be bold,

Landri

Artist

Javier Martinez