“Hard work and discipline is a guaranteed formula for success.” Then you see the beauty of your hard work,” said Whitaker. You’ve got to follow through, stick with it until it’s all done. A job was not completed until the final brick was laid. “I worked as a brick layer for eight years. Whitaker also credits his first job out of high school as a brick layer for giving him a strong sense of discipline, paying attention to minute details, and sticking with a task until it’s completed – skills that come in handy with his artistic projects and also his full-time job. I tell myself, ‘I can do it and I am going to be successful at it, too.’ That’s my approach to life in general.” “Her advice help to instill an unshakable belief in my capability, in myself. How they just stay with you forever? My mother told me I have everything I need to become whomever I want to be, and to accomplish anything I set out to accomplish,” Whitaker said. “You know how you remember certain things your mother said to you. He says it helped form his character and gave him the basis for his work ethic. The middle of three sons, born in the Bronx and raised in Central Islip, Whitaker credits his parents, especially his mother, for being a strong influence on his life. So where does Anthony Whitaker get the drive, motivation and discipline to wear so many hats? Graphic artist. One has to be extremely focused and be very detail oriented in order to excel at this job.
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“It is that part of the visual landscape, an artistic expression in the form of clothing that allows us to express ourselves and communicate a message about who we are.”Īnthony Whitaker also finds the time to hold down a full time job with a major utility company where he is part of a highly trained trouble-shooting team whose main job is to look for clinks in the utility and cable lines and fix them. “I’ve always been interested in fashion because it says so much about who we are as individuals,” Whitaker said. His designs are inspired by the art and culture of ancient Egypt which he says has been instrumental in the development of other art forms. Adding entrepreneurship to his list of achievements, Whitaker designs a clothing line, Valley of the Kings for Men and Valley of the Queens for Women, which he operates out of his Harlem studio and markets through catalogues and local stores throughout the City. Not one to be easily satisfied, the artistically talented Whitaker took his creativity a step further. His poster, “Steel Standing” is a perfect testimony of his incredibly precise and in depth photographic expression. “I feel I have a good eye to compose and frame a moment, and also to give it an artistic slant.” Photography is a great avenue of visual expression,” he said. It stands as a reminder of this City and the world’s resolve to overcome adversity and combat terrorism.”Ī graphic designer and visual artist, Anthony Whitaker has a strong interest in all forms of visual art which started when he was a child taking frequent trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.
This picture will help keep the memory of the World Trade Center alive. It captured the event through photography which is one of the best medium to accomplish that,” said Whitaker. “This poster was created to memorialized this tragedy. His message is loud and clear as seen in the sales of his poster. I showed it to a few people and they were drawn to it but that was about it,” said Whitaker.īut Whitaker should have no doubts anymore. I wasn’t sure that I would be able to communicate what I saw to the viewers. “I had no idea that it would turn into this. Little did Whitaker knew that this picture, which he appropriately named “Steel Standing” because “in spite of everything this steel structure was still standing, it just refuses to go down,” would be reproduced into a well-received poster quickly selling out at art galleries around the City. Of course, you see the damage but at the same time it was also beauty in the form of a ruin,” he continued. And somewhere in there you could see victory, good overpowering evil. “What I saw was this remnant but the way it was standing symbolically communicated strength and character. In my mind it captured the whole event – the jagged edge, the shape, the style, the look of it all,” said Whitaker, a 37 year-old graphic artist. Anthony Whitaker knew the moment he set eyes on the remains of the south tower of the destroyed World Trade Center – jutted steel, still erect with a sense of defiance, pointing toward the sky, refusing to crumble to the monstrosity of terrorism – that this was it.
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