Niki Dean, you wore cutoffs last summer, and we drove the jeep down to the lake with a guitar. It was perfect! I understand you lived in Canada?
Yes, I grew up in Canada, but spent my early childhood in Grenoble, France, a beautiful city at the foothills of the French Alps. It’s known as the Capital of the Alps.
French was my first language until we moved to Canada. I was just turning ten. But I feel like I have since become a citizen of the world.
Tell me about when and where you born?
I was born September 18 th . I’m a Virgo. I was a child of the 90s. I went to school in Ottawa and was the only non blond-hair-blue-eyed kid in my school. Ottawa was considered to be multicultural, and I had this awful mushroom haircut . . . this bowl haircut, which is only cute now in retrospect.
But you got out of Ottawa . . .
After a year, I moved to Toronto, and that’s where I really began to grow up in Canada. Although I started traveling the world modeling when I was16 and found myself going all over Asia, Europe, and South Africa.
So finding yourself . . .
I grew up as a bit of an outsider, living for 90s rock music. I started painting, sculpting, acting, and just being creative. I realized I was the freest when I was being creative. I was always fond of people and all aspects of them, hence why I love acting, and I always seem to be painting human figures, particularly women.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Inner turbulence.
What do you want to be?
Creative.
What qualities do you most like in a man?
Passion and integrity.
What is your favorite drug?
B-12.
What in your mind would be the greatest misfortune?
To never have loved or been loved.
Who are your favorite painters?
[I like] Amedeo Modigliani, Andre Berton, Edvard Munch, and Claude Monet.
What do you most dislike?
Stupidity.
What is your present state of mind?
Free.
Motto?
. . . In Latin I think it’s,
“Expectare nihilum,
. . . In Latin I think it’s,
timere nullum,
sum liber”
or
“Expect nothing,
fear no one,
be free.”
