Alex Rovang

"When you're doing what you feel is your purpose, what you feel like you were kept here to do, it becomes effortless. The questions start being removed from the whole thing, and you're just floating along, following the tendrils of the way that you're being brought through it. It really becomes easier when the doubt starts to be removed. You could just sit back and say, isn't this nice?"

"If I had to give any advice about what this process has taught me, the commonality between any person who has found their purpose is that they just start. So many of the projects I've worked on here are not the project I started. I learned how the project needed to look, feel, or translate based on the process of starting, creating an iteration, looking at that iteration, and being like, oh, that gives me this idea I never had before. Get your damn hands dirty. That's how you do dishes, get your hands wet."

"I think people can just start to live who they want to be, and a lot of that takes a lot of fearlessness and just committing to it. I'm never sure we're going to pay the rent. I know if that time is coming soon, but I'll get to the end of a month and just be like, we don't have rent, but it'll come. I never feel the anxiety. Tomorrow isn't promised, and you have to live with that as a mantra. What's the worst that can happen? I still have the same level of health. I'd still have the same friends, my family would still be there. All the things that matter would still be there. Failure is awesome. Every time we fail, we build ourselves into the person we're supposed to be."

"When you get creative people together in a space, when you have the right elements together, the sum is greater than its parts, and everybody's vibing off of each other. The expression of wonder that I was witnessing in myself and others then became something almost more beautiful than the art itself. To be able to facilitate that in other people became highly rewarding in a different way. It's like improv, the whole yes, and thing. If you're not caught up in your ego, this exponential growth of that creative spirit and force. That's where the muse comes from, and that's where we're unlocking parts of ourselves."

"I think that I've discovered that my purpose in this lifetime is wonder. The moment that it hit me that that was my purpose was when I finally found myself in the midst of this art studio that I created, and all of a sudden I was like, oh, I'm living my purpose. But it wasn't something that I knew that I was going to be pursuing prior to that. It's one of those moments where you're like, oh, here I am doing something that I love, and I'm happy, and I just want to keep doing it. I was telling my friend Adam, this is one of the times, I wouldn't say the first time in my life that I felt this, but it is the first time that I felt this so strongly, that I pray to God that I can stick around to keep doing it like that. I've never wanted to be alive more in order to continue to experience this and witness all of this."