{"id":33327,"date":"2025-12-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=33327"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:17:37","slug":"king-x-indigo-dalvion-j-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2025\/12\/20\/king-x-indigo-dalvion-j-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"King x Indigo (Dalvion J. Fields)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"33327\" class=\"elementor elementor-33327\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a325d90 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a325d90\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2154353 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2154353\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\tYear of birth: 1995<br>\nWhere do you live: Houston, Texas<br>\nYour education: I\u2019m a self taught creative, but I did go to college for graphic design and animation.<br>\nDescribe your art in three words: Inquisitive, Diametric, Iridescent<br>\nYour discipline: I\u2019m primarily an acrylic painter but I consider myself multimedia and work with different organic materials and I work digitally, and design various merch as well.<br>\n<strong>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingxindigo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a> |\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kingxindigo\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\n<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf7a250 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cf7a250\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae3cd9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ae3cd9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33312 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Introduction-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Introduction-Photo.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Introduction-Photo-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Introduction-Photo-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Introduction-Photo-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Introduction-Photo-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Introduction-Photo-600x900.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/h4><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your childhood experiences of grief and feeling like an outsider seem foundational to your practice. How do these early emotions continue to surface in your current work?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Notably grief and rejection from other kids turned a lot of my attention inwards because I knew that I had to create a safe space for myself. One in which I felt there was more possibility than the version of the world that I was experiencing. I absolutely believe the work still encapsulates and translates this feeling that\u2019s essential to understanding my broader view of the world and my experiences. I think that I\u2019m always questioning reality with my work, a feeling that continues to connect me to my childhood mindset when I first started creating.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nature, video games, anime, and fantasy all shaped your inner world growing up. How do these influences merge visually and conceptually in your surrealist language today?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two common themes often found throughout my work are escapism and magic. These are ideas that I think a lot of people can often relate to even in subconscious ways! Surrealism comes so naturally to me as a mode of visual creation because I encourage the viewer to question the world they perceive through my stylized depictions of what\u2019s mostly just found out in our natural world (trees, flowers and such). Inadvertently studying so much fantasy has taught me how to craft a believable world with believable characters and how to suspend disbelief.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33313 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Conflict-Of-Interest-2024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Conflict-Of-Interest-2024.jpeg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Conflict-Of-Interest-2024-300x297.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Conflict-Of-Interest-2024-1024x1012.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Conflict-Of-Interest-2024-768x759.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Conflict-Of-Interest-2024-600x593.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Conflict-Of-Interest-2024-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> King x Indigo (Dalvion J. Fields) | Conflict Of Interest | 2024<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of your works balance bright, playful colors with darker emotional undertones. What draws you to this tension between joy and melancholy?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think about duality and multiple perspectives a lot and how this manifests in our lives and influences our emotional responses to things. Contradictory emotions, light and dark, with and without, life and death etc. are all a part of that sense of questioning I spoke of. I take a lot of opportunities to bring darker topics and emotions to the surface, but I often like to present them in more vibrant ways. It\u2019s somewhat like finding a silver lining in an unfavorable situation. The same subject matter can mean so many different things to different people, and even to yourself at different points in time.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33314 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-2.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-2-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-2-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-2-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-2-600x480.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> King x Indigo (Dalvion J. Fields) | Hidden From Summer | 2025<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your characters often feel introspective, almost withdrawn, yet deeply expressive. Are they self-portraits, emotional avatars, or something else entirely?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m still figuring that out hahaha! I think they\u2019re more emotional avatars, just conduits for my emotional expression and not necessarily depicting myself. I\u2019m usually a logical person, but when I\u2019m working through some specific emotional state, it definitely influences and manifests into the work and into the characters.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">How does your Creole and Haitian ancestry inform the symbols, colors, or narratives within your work, even in subtle or abstract ways?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Color speaks to me first in any creative process and I consider how that could be true for the viewer as well when looking at the art. I think there\u2019s an innate need and intention to communicate in bold lines, colors, and often \u201csimplified\u201d forms which I commonly find in other Haitian artwork and motifs. Creole identity for me culturally speaking, has always been about intersectionality and embracing a layered identity as someone who has ancestors from various ethnicities and backgrounds. Creole artwork often features vivid colors, detailed patterns and deals with themes of identity, history and memory. All of which I identify with culturally and creatively, letting my natural instincts guide my ideas and techniques when working.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33315 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-1024x846.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-768x634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Hidden-From-Summer-2025-600x495.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> King x Indigo (Dalvion J. Fields) | Hidden From Summer | 2025<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">You speak about reshaping cultural and diasporic grief. What does this process look like for you through painting and material experimentation?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I believe for black people (specifically African-Americans born in the U.S.) there is a current rebuilding and reclamation of culture and identity. There\u2019s been so many stories and diasporic cultures that were suppressed or even completely distorted in the past but thankfully people are tuning in more into history and even ancestral wisdom, allowing for more nuanced and truthful storytelling which influences the art as a whole. Additionally as a bisexual\/queer person, I want to capture this feeling of \u201chome\u201d and \u201cshared space\u201d that I find comes with catharsis. I\u2019d like to think that I encourage this mindset with my work, knowing that modern culture is always evolving and changing, I want to help steer it to a more accepting place with nuance and possibility for those who are marginalized or left out.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33316 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Imagine-Days-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Imagine-Days-2024.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Imagine-Days-2024-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Imagine-Days-2024-814x1024.jpg 814w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Imagine-Days-2024-768x966.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/King-x-Indigo-Dalvion-J.-Fields-Imagine-Days-2024-600x755.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> King x Indigo (Dalvion J. Fields) | Imagine Days | 2024<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you want viewers to emotionally engage with your work\u2014through empathy, reflection, discomfort, or imagination?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The only expectation that I have for viewers and my audience is for them to approach the art with open imaginations and minds. I think there is a lot of tangible meaning and feeling woven throughout the work that\u2019s ready to share itself through multiple lenses, whether it be empathy, melancholy, whimsey or even sometimes discomfort. These feelings and facets of my emotionality are a culmination of my experiences and I\u2019m confident in my visual language and storytelling in conveying them. I always hope that everyone who views and spends time with the work walks away feeling a little freer to express themselves than before.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year of birth: 1995 Where do you live: Houston, Texas Your education: I\u2019m a self taught creative, but I did go to college for graphic design and animation. 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