虚心 ("Kyoshin") → impartiality (translates literally to void spirit)
I had a broad vision of what I wanted to create during approx. early 2016. Form a collective based on motorsports & art that brings like-minded people together and provides a safehaven for those working to spread their creative wings.. A simple idea on paper but things like this are very difficult to manifest. At first, It started as a brand that focused on anime & cars. As I started making things I began to despise what I was coming up with, it didn't resonate with me at all. The anime & cars combination was a difficult task to get done tastefully and I honestly didn't want that to become the thing people knew me for if I were to gain popularity, so consequently I started to change up the style of my "brand". I decided to make it more personal, more meaningful, more true. I went through many revisions of my image. People close to me know very well.
What you now see is my vision brought to life. What I truly dreamt of making. A chrysalis emerged. Teamkyoshin.
This is not a team by definition. This is a loose collective of people around the globe who appreciate both motorsports & Art and wish to blend the two to create something revolutionary. I mostly tend to be very cryptic and incorporate the concept of duality in my works. Duality is a feeling and an ideal that I hold dear and is also something I believe makes the world beautiful in my eyes. Good & Evil. Love & Hate. Life & Death. Harmony & Chaos. Complete opposites that cannot live without one another so long as humans roam the earth. Duality exists within us all and we cannot change that, I choose to embrace it. I try to find the balance between the heavens and hellfire.
My biggest inspirations are Visual 系 bands (Mejibray, Lynch, L'arc en Ciel, VAMPS, Versailles, Deathgaze, Penicillin) Japanese Motorsports and some of its star influencers (Keiichi Tsuchiya, Komine-San, Yoshinori Koguchi), and metalheart/depthcore artwork. These inspirations especially the Visual 系 ones are very prevalent in my personal life.
I don't particularly like referring to my creation as a brand even though that's what people like to view it as (and thats kind of what it is lol). It is strictly meant to be a collective of individuals who gather under one faction to appreciate art in its truest form by collaborating and expirementing with unbridled styles, while simultaneously materializing thoughts/mental sequences to bring forth something that transcends the mortal mind. An elegance beyond human cognition.
I refuse to be a fake piece of industry-grown trash nor do I want to be some sort of cheap cash grab and I intend to keep it that way. Flawed is flawless in my eyes and this is the way I want to display it. Nothing I do, say, or make will be perfect and I have accepted that. Now I intend to spread this philosophy to others so they can live a life without personal and societal burdens resting on their shoulders and finally bring color back to this bleak era we have found ourselves in.
- Long Live The Team,
Braylon Joseph, Owner of Teamkyoshin