This week we feature Young Professional Dwayne C. Mactavious
Avant-garde, well rounded and a lover of life and people despite race, colour or creed are attributes of this son of the Virgin Islands, Mr Dwayne C. Mactavious.
He lives his passion and that’s for the arts. Being the owner and skilled artist of DM Creative, our young professional gets the unique opportunity to sell who he is to the world and said he loves every moment of it.
He carries a ‘swag’ that says to the world he loves who he is and most of all, fashion and trendy so whenever he steps out heads unavoidably turn. “I am a true artist, I live it, I love it and I am not afraid of being it.”
“There are times that you would have second thoughts of who you want to be and were you want to go, but the key to being successful and accomplished is to live by the guidance of your heart. Let that key organ in your body pulsate and reflect in your daily life because that’s where the true you lives, in your heart,” he told Virgin Islands News Online.
Mr Mactavious is a graphic designer and dancer. “Graphic designing, I was always intrigued by it and I got to learn more of it when I graduated from High School,” he said.
Being connected with the Government Information Services (GIS) some twelve years ago, his skills in the area of graphics was further nurtured and propelled him to take it to another level. This saw him taking the courageous step of enrolling at the Missouri Southern State University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Communications.
It was while away at university that he was drafted into another form of art- dancing. “I dabbled in that a little until I got home and I joined the dance company, the CADA players and then I went on to do training with them. It’s been a great journey since I came back home in 2009 and between then and now I just learnt so much from being a part of that group.”
Our young professional said the art form of dance was one that has seen him grown very fast in despite not having any formal training at the level of school in the earlier days of his life. What has taken the core of Mr Mactavious is that being in the arts gives him that outlet to express his true self.
He said that while age and time will have some effect on his dancing side of life, being a graphic artist is one that he is passionately pursuing as a lifetime career.
“Graphic designing, what I love about it is that you can do it at any age, which is great, whereas dancing has a life span,” he said with a broad smile. “These bones will grow old and weary some day and would not be able to handle the rigors of dancing.”
The two art forms, which our young professional says go hand-in-hand as ways for one to express themselves, will hold him to maintaining dancing by way of becoming a choreographer. As for graphic designing, in the next five to ten years he sees himself being the owner of one of the largest graphic designing companies producing work for international markets and those local.
“I want to be at that place in graphic designing where we would be catering for the big orders, not making less of the small, single designing request because every dollar counts and no one business is larger or smaller in my sight, they are equally of importance because they all bring in the money and that is the order of the day.”
Mr Mactavious said that for him and the company he owns and manages, while they are in the infancy stages of growing having secured a trade license earlier this year, moderate paces of growth will get him to his ultimate destination.
When he is not on the stage dancing or at his desk creating concepts and fulfilling graphic art designing, one can be certain to find our young professional tucked away reading a book, writing, somewhere in the great outdoors or travelling the world.
Given the opportunity, he offered to guide the path of youth by denouncing criminal acts. “Turning to criminal activities will only serve to shorten your life span. Walk with your heads high, be proud of who you are, what you want to be. Remember always life is not a smooth road, when you reach a bumpy patch slow down and ride it.”
He further opined that youth need to stay focus and align themselves with people who appreciate who they are, their dreams and aspirations. “Stay on track and you will eventually get to the finish line.”
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