03132021 /  by Kerric Thomas

The road to my first release, has been a long one filled with a lot of travel just to get to this point. Lots of fear and doubt. Lots of talking about what I wanted to do or what I wish I could do…but never any real output. Over the years, SACREDBRED started to become more of a guise for me to get through each and everyday. I would rationalize that if I didn’t do anything creative physically, at least I spent some time in creative thought and that would justify my brand building. But that carried on for many years to the point that at least to me, it became more lip service rather than an actual thing I was building. *My closest friends can attest to that.

This pandemic is what made me decide to take a leap of faith and finally get shit going. What I needed to do first was change my vision mentally and spiritually. And so I started on a journey of Knowledge of Self. My reason other than for brand building and self expression, was based on where I was in the world with all that’s going on and has been going on…and what it was doing to me. I needed to turn that program off and really begin to get myself together. The more I read and studied, the more I began to understand what being divine meant to me. If I call myself divine, that means that I can curate, manifest, bring into being, all that I want for myself. That created a challenge for me to rise to. It meant that there was no excuse not to bring SB to life.

The first release coincided with the month of February. I needed a launch date and had been working on a bunch of designs based on Knowledge of Self, that I call DIVINE SELF STUDIES. I started getting anxious to bring it to life but then I started reflecting on what February stood for. First, it was Black History Month and I used that energy as a black man as some sort of personal elevation. It was like an added umph. It was also the month that coincided with Valentine’s Day. And that’s where my original plans for a release went in a different direction. One of the 12 Jewels is Love. Love represented by a ❤️. Love is the most powerful force in life. And so I wanted to do something to reflect that. I’ve failed at the relationships I’ve had in the past and it’s a thing I now stay away from. But I also started to reflect on relationships outside of the kinds between one person and another where you call that person yours. Instead, I thought over my life and began to think of the people who have been a support for me for so many years, without wavering. This is represented by the ⭐️. The star represents the human in divine form. The body. ARM-LEG-LEG-ARM-HEAD. It also represents Understanding. And I began to understand the reasons why we were in each other’s lives…or in each other’s universe. My Heart Pumps Stars is me honoring my friends and family on a cosmic level. I’ve often said that I’d never be able to truly repay them for showing up in my life the way they have, so this is my way of expressing it. This is for you.

My universe also extends to those who I’ve shared certain moments in time with. Many of those same people have supported this release…and to those people, I want you to know those moments meant a lot to me. I look at time differently now. I look back at those moments in time and am grateful to have shared them with you. I often reflect on the meaning of our worlds/universes coming together in the first place…like some sort of cosmic equation. This release is dedicated to you too.

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