Fly As A Lady Part 4

"Sometimes people get inspiaration from things that they may not know about. Things that came before there time. Its like the evolution of the human brain." - Jwastar*

I guess we all got a chance to learn what it’s like inside the life of an artistically gifted individual who never stops. This month was the month of Fly Lady Di and in learning about who she is as an artist I got to also learn who she was as an individual.



How do you move inside a male driven world and make your own footprints without them being erased without notice? The fast lane of an NYC resident on the go isn’t something that ever really stops. Relationships, career, work, leisure, food, dance, paint, sleep and then she gets up and does it all over again. Finding time for friends, fun and work can actually happen all in the same instance at times. I ran into the Ms. Fly Thang herself at the infamous APT Wednesday night with Rich Medina (with no locs :-O) spinning on the ones and twos.




It’s one thing to be all about work but it’s definitely important to find time to “chillax”. I found pleasure in finding out new things about Fly Lady Di on a regular basis. Running into her in the most dopest settings. Seeing how much of an inspiration she is to not only me but to many others around her.

Summing her up isn’t the easiest task for me since her growing popularity isn’t something I can catch. What I’ll say is as an artist, she reigns supreme in creating a movement called Live Art. What she’s able to bring to the table with her work and motion in paint shows her versatility to grow into a spectrum for much debate. Looking at the many greats in Art such as Basquait and Warhol to name a few, I see a realness and sanity, a human quality that they seem to sometimes lack. So focused in her work and the longevity and effectiveness of it all, she shows what it means to be a real person behind the art.


As a woman, she holds an un-equatable amount of feminity that allows her to exude something that a man could never offer. Inside her art, who she is storms onto the paper in such a dynamic way that it’s no question that a woman did it. There’s something different about doing these pieces in front of a live audience that cannot be duplicated. It’s almost like being allowed to sit inside a room and watch her work as an invisible being, yet it’s not. Ms. Di seems to always sit herself in a room of an unimaginable amount of Hip Hop. There will always be an embodied source of our culture oozing from her canvas. Ode to Hip Hop.

As a Philipina, she represents a country that brings about her grace. The Asian community is very pleased with the legacy she is choosing to leave of them as a whole.



As a star, she’s something to be reckoned with. Creating her own path, she’s shown me what it means to grow inside of your own art and allow yourself to create from an area that doesn’t have anything to do with people. It has nothing to do with a crowd, nothing to do with ex-boyfriends, nothing to do with friends or family. It starts from inside first and then… there is room to tell a story. From being who she chose to be when she wakes up every morning is the first thing that makes her who she is. The paintings she draws from engulfing her life with the people she loves and the artists she encounters is the story behind the beauty.

She’s working on a business right now with 2 other artists, Ibrahim and ------ to create places for them to do their art and travel with it. She’s created a movement you might not know about as of yet. I guess that’s why it’s an extraordinary story. It’s definitely why she’s a Star in my terms.

Fly As A Lady Interview Part 4 By Jwastar


You can find her at www.myspace.com/FlyLadyDi