 The work that I do is based off of a quote that I got about ten years ago on a magnet And it says a quarter of the jeans found in bananas are also found in humans. Get over yourself My name is Danielle Elizabeth Hine. I go by Miss Hine on all the wonderful social platforms So lost my job recently Because the only way to keep it was to move out of New Orleans So I'm gonna play around with what it feels like to be a full-time artist I really dug into what makes up people so you'll see a lot of skulls in my work You'll see lips mustaches eyeballs breaking down the things that when you put it all together makes us, you know a human The other part of the art is all the costuming that I do I try to make everything as recycled as possible our thrift stores are Super great headdresses are for sure the main thing I think I dress to the headdress and so I wanted to see if I could make it myself Flip a visor around glue a bunch of to it and you know walk out your door Everyone here is so proud of being from New Orleans and everyone has got a little bit of a different background And so it's just got tons of different things that have inspired me my color palette in general since I've moved to Louisiana Has taken a huge turn your indecent materials and like vintage wallpaper and a lot of you know found things More recently I actually dug into the public art space the whole point of why I'm creating stuff It is so that I can be out there and hopefully bring a little joy to somebody else And so recently I just finished my first mural which was about a thousand square feet So I asked this auto body shop that is next to the yoga studio that I teach at and I've been passing by this wall for Three years and I was like Kevin if you pay for the paint lemon paint your wall and he was like, yeah Sure, let's do that the community that has come together to make the mural happen Was incredible and like that friend helping friend type of community that you know I kind of lifted everybody up That's the space that I want to continue to move into is like how can I leave my mark on the community that I care about? So much and how can I do in a manner that it's it's accessible for everybody and then you can use art to talk about things You can talk about things that we don't want to talk about because they're uncomfortable And you know, I'm not coming to the community with an answer But I certainly want to come to the community with something that's going to make them question why things are I just landed an artist residency, which I'm super pumped about It's with seven other artists in New Orleans all from different backgrounds all in different disciplines Really excited to work with them and then a ton more public art Like it's much public artists people will let me like if you have a wall give it to me You know and like maybe buy me a beer every once in a while And then we'll see how long I can get my rent paid for and go from there