#The7LoveStories’s Illustrator: KGKH Art™

She can’t wait to see “the excitement and joy” this project will bring.

Hello, Dear Readers! I’m Rionna Morgan, author of The 7 Love Stories. Together with artists Steph Rapo, KGKH Art™, Megan Morrow, and Grace Lovart, we have created this dynamic LiteraryNFT collection, set to be released early 2023! The 7 Love Stories collaboration team is so very dear to my heart. I feel incredibly lucky to have met and collaborated with four talented, beautiful women artists who have illustrated the stories I wrote for you.

I recently had a chance to talk with KGKH Art™, one of the four illustrators, and interview her a bit for this article. I want her to share her story — about how she came to the NFT Community, her life as an artist, what advice she would give to others following a similar path, and her thoughts on The 7 Love Stories themselves.

KGKH Art™ has an inspiring story. She was born in Jamaica and later moved to Panama. She received a Bachelor of Science degree after moving to the U.S. This degree helps her see the technical side of art, and she uses both it and her beautiful artistic eye to create her work.

She is a single mother of twins, and together they create the KGKH Art™ artistic team. The art they create as NFTs brings awareness to the detailed and unique MOLA ART traditionally made by the indigenous Kuna Indians of Panama. She and her twins create MOLA digitally to share with the NFT family of collectors.

As a member of the NFT Community herself, what she treasures most are the “thoughtful, helpful, and genuine people” she meets there. She feels so very “fortunate to be part of good communities” that have made her feel as if she truly belongs.

Before she became a digital artist, her main medium was “pencil, acrylics, and mixed media [creating] portraits, landscapes, and abstracts.” When she became a member of the NFT Community she transitioned to drawing and creating digitally in Procreate.

There have been many key events that stand out for her on her artist journey since joining the NFT Community. She was invited to speak during the TIMEPieces Emerging Artist Series in September 2022 and was awarded TIMEPieces GIVE FIRST Person of the Year that same month! Which was a well-deserved honor in part for her work for the Dwarfism Awareness Month Charity mint. This mint held in October 2022 was a KGKH Art™ project and was a resounding success. “For the first time in my life, I was able to donate fiat via ETH by creating art with my twins!”

KGKH Art™ began the year 2022 by being a featured artist at the WOMEN IN TECH Virtual Exhibition at Spatial.io. During the year, her art was digitally displayed at the Contemporary African Art Fair Exhibition in London. In December, her art was physically displayed at the TIMEPieces Gallery in Blackdove, FL during Art Basel 2022. Her work can be seen on her Twitter page @KgkhArt and by visiting her Linktr.ee. In 2023 her art will be showcased in #NFTNYC2023 Community Artist Showcase and may be one of 200 artists to have her art on a Times Square Billboard!

The advice she would give to someone who is looking to join the NFT community centers around finding a group or family that is stable and shares the same “core value.” If you’re “in doubt or unsure of something, always ask,” she says.

KGKH Art™ is so excited to join The 7 Love Stories team. She believes The 7 Love Stories literary NFT project is different from other NFT projects because it is a “compilation of literature, art, and sound.” She loves how “dynamic” it is, and “how it expresses love.” One such love is how it was developed to reach a wide audience. The 7 Love Stories will be able to be enjoyed by collectors who may be sight impaired or by those who may be unable to read.

As one of the four illustrators, she is most excited about the reactions The 7 Love Stories will elicit once they are revealed. She can’t wait to see “the excitement and joy” this project will bring. She is “eternally grateful for each and everyone” on The 7 Love Stories team and for her “supporters and audience.” They are like “family to me.” She hopes that everyone “embrace[s] this new Literary NFT” as much as she does.