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Dzhelasi’s Art Passion Turned Career

Dzhelasi fell in love with art from an early age and turned it into a career!

Dzhelasi’s dad took her to work when she was young, and she loved seeing what
the graphic artists at his job were doing. She got support from much of her
family to help grow her passion into a career. Her sister helped her along with
getting clients to draw for, and now is doing it full time.

Being a full-time artist has been a bit of a challenge that she has enjoyed,
because she loves what she does. She is a single mother, and is currently
working on her own apparel line.

Episode 24
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m

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interviewing Deza lassie Murray who is
living her dream through art and graphic

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design

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welcome to the show that Lassie hey
thanks for having me thank you for being

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a part of the show I really appreciate
you coming on

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why don’t we get started by giving our
audience a bit of your background

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well i’m a 31 year old mom graphic
designer and artist from New York I

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worked under the alias des Murray and
I’ve been doing so since about $MONTH

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2005 started off with virtual gaming
sites and move my way up to essentially

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making my own business and getting my
name out there freelance wise so what

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would you say inspires you freedom and
expression doing what i want i think

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that drawing helps me relieve any stress
is from the world and i’m finishing

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pieces me a sense of accomplishment the
fact that people like my work as an

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added bonus

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i’m glad that i have had the time to
manage something that I love and I can

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do as a career

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how did the stream of drawing come about
it’s pretty much my dad he drew and

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created a lot of artwork and things like
that he worked as a Pressman for a

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printing company so one day around maybe
fourth grader so i attended what was

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that take your daughter to work day and
he took me to the printing company but

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unfortunately he didn’t let me really
mess around with any of the machines

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because they were expensive and really
messy huh I didn’t really want to mess

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with them anyway because the ink was
very hard to take out of the clothes so

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he pretty much said for the time to pass
just sit here on this computer and

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occupy yourself and I saw some workers
that he still work with we’re doing some

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digital art on the computer and from
there it was like my first experience

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with being interested in art software in
digital art and design and things like

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that so it started from there and then
when i got home i press them like dad

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