#98: Kemet
We're joined by Pretoria-native Graphic designer & Creative director, Kemet, who tells us more about Teen Wolf & Nightmare on Elm Street, Dim Sum, aligning with whatever you want to be, and more.
Kemet is a South African Black Woman from the city of Jacarandas, Pretoria. They’re a Graphic Designer and Creative Director, a boundary breaker and a risk taker. She’s just a creator by thee creator and she’d describe herself as her very own Alice in Wonderland so you can only imagine what’s next.
We welcome Kemet to The FRM Newsletter to share what she’s been into recently!
🗣🗯 Personal quote
“Everything you want to be is what you already are just align with it.”
👙👖 Personal style
Alexander McQueen grunge style and Jean Paul Gaultier are how I’d like to describe my style I love something with patterns a pop of punk. I collect timeless pieces that work for any season as long as it is my signature look I’m sorted.
Standard look
A good pattern jean and a cute tank top some cool boots will do for me.
Summer look
Distressed anything with some oversized jeans or short shorts paired with cute heels or boots does it for me.
🎹 Music
My top artists I listen to would include: Queen—We are the champions, Burningforestboy—Ferrari forest freestyle, Eli sostre—Judas effect, 070 shake—Guilty conscience and I have to shout out the homie Patrickxxlee—4R. I love a melodic feel to anything musical, it feels more like story telling to me, a balance between something harmonic and something alternative shapes how I choose to describe how I feel so I think it fits perfectly.
🖼📸 Art
I usually draw inspiration from my own art but if I had to name some influences worth taking a look at I would say 730t and some ancient hieroglyphs take it for me. And for Morden times—I’d say Maxwell Atoms who is an American animator. I just prefer a contrast of worlds when it comes to art between serious, deep meanings and goofy heartwarming categories anything can be interpreted differently however the history and what it represents. I’d categorize photography as art in my opinion and creative direction plays a huge part of how timeless something can be. A few photographers I know who capture that for me would be Takeover.Al, Slxck.93, Gabriele Moses, really innovative creators to be honest.
🧟♂️📼 Film
I really am a 90s films fanatic. Teen Wolf and Nightmare on Elm Street are my hard watches any day nothing like something family friendly and a bit of gore. Psychological thrillers such as Donny Darko and anything Studio Ghibli can run with me. Spirited Away in particular warms my heart I don’t know why but it just does.
🐫📗 Books
An honourable mention I’d put in there is Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’, I tend to gravitate towards spiritual books.
🥟 Food
I’m a light eater so nothing like a good bowl of oats can’t fix to be honest lol. If I could eat I like anything forever it would be Dim Sum—which is a Cantonese cuisine. I do prefer my meals in smaller portions but large quantities.
🇪🇬👸 Travel & Lifestyle
I’ve researched a lot about travelling and even took it upon myself to learn more about different places and cultures so I do gravitate towards two places especially which is Egypt and Hawaii—two every historical places jam packed with hidden knowledge and beautiful people. However, fun fact my first name is Kemet—which was the name of Egypt before it was named Egypt—so understandable why I gravitate to that certain place so much and my family roots tie back to those origins. So I would say I was curated right by God.