ABOUT
Six crafts.
One obsession.
I'm an artist experimenting with different mediums to share my perspective on the human experience. Here's the longer version of why.
THE BLAH BLAH BORING LORE
Here's some Boring Blah Blah about me.
I grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo a kid with a Paulo Coelho book in one hand and a sketchbook in the other, doing theatre after school and losing entire weekends to video games. My real name is Japhet Mbambi. Lérraje came later, almost by accident: I moved to the UAE, and my friends couldn't quite land on "Japhet," so they started calling me Jarrel instead. I flipped it backwards as a joke. It stuck. Turns out the joke was a better name than the mix-up that created it.
THE CHAOS OF IT ALL
I get bored easily. I've made peace with that.
I'm endlessly curious, I want to learn everything, try everything, wear every hat I can get my hands on. Documentaries. A podcast. Style. Paint. Direction. People ask me all the time how I keep up with so many things at once, like I'm supposed to eventually pick one and let the others go.
I don't think that's how being human actually works. A person was never meant to be one thing, everyone's wearing multiple hats, some of us just don't admit it.
So I stopped treating my curiosity like a problem to manage, and started treating it like the actual work.
Part of it is also just how my brain works.
I have pretty severe ADHD, and staying still has never really been an option for me, if I'm not building something, learning something, or chasing the next idea, I go a little stir-crazy.
For a long time that felt like a flaw I had to manage. Now I just build my life around it: six crafts instead of one, so there's always somewhere for my attention to go instead of nowhere.
That doesn't mean it's easy. It's come with real costs: financial ones, burnout, boredom, self-doubt, more self-criticism than I'd like to admit.