 Art wasn't one of the things that I found. I think art found me. My name is Brian Poli Dixon and I'm an artist. I started painting five years ago. You know, I was playing football. I went to college at UCLA, played football there. Then went to the NFL after that. Only after I retired from the NFL did I discover painting. It really was just a natural progression. It was one of those situations where I've always felt like an artist. So I feel like I was an artist before I was an athlete. My process when I'm creating work is a little bit different for each painting. There are times that I have absolutely no idea what I'm gonna do when I start the canvas. And I just literally put paint on the canvas and I find the painting as I'm going. If you went into one of my shows, as me as an early artist, it would look like there was five or six different artists on the wall. It's fun. It's like an experiment all the time. So like, you know, you're working with different mediums, different paints, kind of seeing what works what doesn't work. You know, it's just kind of like learning on the go. If I'm doing a painting that is part of a series, then I kind of have an idea of what I'm gonna do before I start. I'm constantly, you know, writing down dreams or ideas or quotes and all this kind of stuff. And my genius series that I'm doing is very special to me. Most people, when they think of genius, they think of somebody being like super smart. But for me, genius is just having something that, you know, is special. Or almost like a passion or a purpose. So it's something that everybody has inside of them. You know, once you find your genius, you know, try to share that with as many people as possible. If you want to be a professional artist, it's not just about painting something and having it on the wall. So when you have a website, you have the social media platforms, you're doing shows. It makes people think that what they're buying has value. The thing I like about social media is the fact that it's all real time. You're kind of keeping people engaged and it makes it more fun though too. You know, honestly, like, I think sky's the limit. I'm constantly pushing, constantly working. I'm just really excited, you know, for what's ahead and I don't even know what that is yet. When I get to see a finished product and it's in someone's home or it's in a gallery, that's probably the best feeling. That's what I consider success.