{"id":1036230,"date":"2026-09-01T03:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1036230\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:48:17","slug":"artsy-fartsy-a-conversation-with-phoenix-hill-the-sunflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1036230\/","title":{"rendered":"Artsy Fartsy: A conversation with Phoenix Hill \u2013 The Sunflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <strong>What career path do you hope to pursue after college?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I hope that eventually I can get my master\u2019s to go into teaching. But right now, my plan is to do a tattoo apprenticeship after I graduate. Just with these last two semesters building up more of my portfolio<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <strong>Do you have a project that you hope to pursue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Yes, I have this high fantasy universe, it\u2019s called \u201cOracle.\u201d It\u2019s where all my oil paintings live and so it\u2019s really every painting is about this universe, and I\u2019m really inspired by when I was little, Cartoon Network, Steven Universe, Adventure Time, stuff like that. I\u2019ve always wanted to make a full-blown story, whether it be a graphic novel or a cartoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <strong>Is there an artist that influenced you or that you look up to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Yes, I would say Fox and Comet is a Louisiana-based artist. They do amazing work. It\u2019s more about feminism and changing into animals and stuff like that, which I also think is really cool. Also, Rebecca Sugar, she was the creator of Steven Universe, and so that\u2019s always been one of my bigger inspirations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <strong>What led you to being creative?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I definitely think making stories. I think having a narrative and having, even listening to a song and I\u2019ll think of a character I have or I\u2019ll think, \u201cOh, what if this character went through a big change or they went through something crazy?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What is something you wish more people understood about creatives and artists?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I think there\u2019s a lot more avenues than people think, like job wise. I think it\u2019s like, even growing up, it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, what are you going to do with that?\u201d You know? Which is kind of frustrating. I do feel like, my perspective is that math and art are kind of the same where it\u2019s like, you can\u2019t do anything without math, you can\u2019t do anything without art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q: What career path do you hope to pursue after college? A: I hope that eventually I can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1036231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1036230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117193743425938952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}