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Hello my name is Katy Fryd and I am an artist and author and illustrator of the Cat Inspector
children's book and I'm making these videos to help other artists that are starting out
on there careers this video is about death so at a very young age I experienced death
and I don't think that feeling has ever left me that life can end in an instant and I think
that's had an affect on me in lots of ways I will do another video on how that has affected
me regarding my art and the process of making art but for this video I'm thinking about
how it has affected what I want to produce to leave behind for other people so after
I'm dead, I know a lot of people might think you know when you're dead you are not going
to care so there is no point but actually if you live your life thinking oh well when
I'm dead I'm not going to care then you're not going to there's no point doing anything
so you might as well live your life thinking well after I'm gone what would I like to leave
behind what would I like my legacy to be well I'd quite like to help other people who are
still living who are still on the planet to live their lives so that they don't have to
that they can avoid things that I've learnt about about art so that they don't have to
experience it all like I have to then find out the right way you know they can sort of
jump a step so yeah I think I have this sense that I'm going to die young or that I'm going
to die in some tragic circumstances and it's just something that is part of my character
part of my personality that I always have this sense that life could end tomorrow so
I ask myself and I think it's a good thing to ask yourself is what is going to be left
behind when you are dead. What's there going to be that shows what your life what was the
meaning of your life? What was it for? For me at the moment and this is not just something
that is left behind like your stuff but something that is accessible to the world so that if
somebody says oh that artist died they can google you and they can find out what you
have made what you've created and hopefully they'll know you so they'll some people will
know you but so yeah what have you left behind? And for me it would be the Cat Inspector book
because that is something that anyone can go onto Amazon and they can buy that book
pretty much all over the world through various means So I feel like that is something that
even after I've gone people can still buy that and I kind of want to use this video
to say that if I do die tomorrow or if I do die in tragic circumstances or anything like
that please go out and buy my book because my kids will benefit from that if I'm not
around to support them anymore! so yeah but I also want to create other books which I'm
working on at the moment so because as an artist what have you got when you leave the
planet you've got your final objects your artworks your pieces of art your paintings
your sculptures or whatever you do as an artist you've got those works but I think it is also
useful for people that can't necessarily access those works or they may get destroyed or damaged
in your lifetime or after your lifetime that to collect them altogether and to document
them and to put this information into the books so not just your images but also your
philosophies on art and on life because I think that is interesting for other people
to read as well so yeah create create your artwork but create books as well so that they
are accessible from everywhere so that if you do die you have got something that you
have made that is your mark on the world that possibly may help somebody else even if it
just helps one other person so I think that's really important so you yeah you've got some
sort of legacy so after you've gone and it gives your life a bit of a purpose as well
because your living your life to affect somebody else's life in a positive way hopefully and
so yeah I hope that people will read the Cat Inspector and some little kids will love it
and will always remember it like I remember a lot of kids books from when I was a child
really fondly so I do hope that my book has that affect on people and I hope to create
more books that have a legacy too. That's my little brief thing on how death affects
my way of thinking but I'll probably do another video on how it affects the urgency for me
to create my art and to get it known which is a similar thing with the books okay thank
you bye!