DATE: Thursday, May 1, 1997                 TAG: 9704300162

SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN             PAGE: 03   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: THUMBS UP 

SOURCE: BY FRANK ROBERTS, STAFF WRITER 

                                            LENGTH:   52 lines

KANDIS KNIGHT WINNER OF SISTER CITIES, SUFFOLK ART LEAGUE CONTEST

The people are not draped in flags - they are made out of flags.

Kandis Knight sees them walking around the globe.

It is a young artist's way of looking at global unity; ``My Future In the Global Community,'' was the theme of an art competition sponsored recently by the local chapter of Sister Cities International and the Suffolk Art League.

After Kandis's mixed media painting won first place locally, it traveled to the Lone Star State.

It is now at the University of Texas, in Tyler, where it will be judged against other winning entries from around the country.

The 13-year-old John F. Kennedy Middle School seventh grader painted an ideal world.

Will there ever be such a thing?

``All the nations should come together as one,'' Kandis said. ``Sometimes, I think it will happen - sometimes, I don't have a clue.''

Her artistic perfect world dream is an unusual approach for the daughter of Angela Knight and Leslie Deloatch of Blythewood Lane.

``I usually do still life,'' Kandis said - ``watercolors, or pencil sketches. I started painting in the fourth grade. I paint when I feel like it.''

Howard Green, her art instructor, felt she was good enough to enter the competition.

Art, though, is not her first priority.

Kandis, who is on the A-B honor roll, and a member of the Beta Club, is most interested in computer aided drafting.

``It's like architecture, but you do it on a computer. I like to do houses and other buildings,'' she said. ``With a computer you have more control.

``Sometimes, you can visualize what you want, but you can't do it right,'' Kandis said. ``With a computer you can work at it until you get exactly what you want.''

She wants a computer/art-filled life, with time out for horror, etc.

``I like horror, suspense, and action movies,'' Kandis said. ``I channel surf on television. I most enjoy watching `Planet Groove.' ''

Kandis also enjoys attending the New Mount Joy Church of God in Christ.

``I don't sing in the choir, or anything,'' she said. ``I'm too shy.''

Kandis is not shy about discussing her ``all's-right-with-the-world'' dream.

What would she like to tell the world?

``What my project said.'' ILLUSTRATION: Staff photo by MICHAEL KESTNER

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