By Web3ArtBlog.NFT
Good stories are hard to come by and profound stories are quite rare. So when this trully exceptional life story came inside my Twitter DM, I was blown away to say the least.
Its a story I would gladly spend days searching for deep inside the dusty shelves of the human brain library and life experiences archive.
I was going to do an extensive Q and A deep dive with Vonsassy.x to get to her soul, but what she shared with me blew me away.
It appeared inside my Twitter DM but it came from deep inside her heart and soul. It completely changed the dynamics for me.
Words fail to express what I felt when I read it, so I’m publishing this genuine masterpiece as it came to me in my DM and I know you will feel it too way deep down in your soul.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is pure joy for Web3ArtBlog.NFT to present this amazing story by Vonsassy.x.
“Hi Drumkoon,
I thought I’d send you this background info which might help when deciding what you’d like to talk about in the interview.
My family is descended from the only noble family to settle in South Africa almost 400 years ago. The town of Oudtshoorn is named after us.
My paternal grandfather was a self made man who started as junior draftsman in an engineering company and later worked his way up to CEO of that same company. They actually created armored military vehicles on contract for the SA army and other countries as well.
My dad, on the other hand, became a dropout and a hippie and he ended up a conscientious objector in the SA border war, so you could say that he and my grandfather were slightly at odds. My dad was drafted over a period of two years when I was very young and it affected him very deeply.
Not long after my dad got out of the army my parents decided to join a religious movement that lived communally and by faith. I spent my early childhood until the age of ten on the road, traveling from town to town, living in camp sites and friend’s homes, and performing in various institutions. My dad also sold music cassettes.
This early part of my childhood was spent between Cape Town, the northern cape, Namibia, the Free State, Johannesburg and Pretoria. We also lived in communes with other missionary families. I went to nine schools between the ages of 7-10 years old.
When I was ten we moved to Norway and lived in communes in various homes in both western and Eastern Europe over the next five years between 1989 – 1994. We returned to South Africa just after Mandela became the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
I spent the next few years running social projects in homes for street kids and small community schools in “informal settlements” in Johannesburg and Botswana. I was also a junior chaplain at the juvenile section of a prison when I was only seventeen.
I moved alone to Hong Kong on 1997 and later Taiwan, where I have lived since 2000. I have worked as a model and TV commercial actress, an ESL teacher, and my favorite, kindergarten teacher, which I am still doing today.
I get my design bent from the grandfather, I guess, and after graduating an online design program from a UK school I started my blog, Design Baddie, as a way to give back and make information on design and becoming a designer available to more people.
I am working on a course for virtual interior design entrepreneurs and I plan to charge for this course, but my vision is to give a free subscription for every paid one to future designer hopefuls in developing countries.
Since discovering Bruce Mau I have been encouraged to see design as activism, something we tend to see in architecture, but not as much in the interior design field.
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