I am inspired from looking out my window and seeing a grey squirrel eating a banana peel mayonnaise torpedo on a neighbors front porch with a tow truck on fire across the street. I am inspired from reading the daily news and then talking to people on the corner and getting the other daily news from the streets.
I use Sumi ink, spray paint, oil stick, and acrylic for mediums, and paint almost exclusively on recycled doors or scraps of wood. My signature squiggly lines come from outer space. It’s alien graffiti language I guess. It came to me one night six years ago in New Mexico while wildin’ out on a twenty foot charcoal and paper mural. The titles of these painting are their primary purpose. The actual painting comes second.
I also use found objects or recycled trash to create 3-D Dadaist combines and political, social, cultural or spontaneous reflections about this most insane, beautiful, and fiendish world. I love intangible, split-second moments in time, the ones which are forgotten, dismissed, or overlooked because they are too immediately abstract or absurd. ie: seeing some guy crossing the street and suddenly realizing that i want to bite a brick for ten hours straight while Linda Rhonstat belches constantly in a d minor tremelo to Roy Nagin whose on his knees, dressing red ants for the highschool prom. I try to express these moments in my art. I add humor and absurdity to make sense out of and address such issues.
Inspiration: Dada, punk rock, 1970’s NY subway walls, street art and graff, taoism, old vinyl jazz and hip-hop, honky-tonkin’ and old country, love and sex, old typewriters, old leather briefcases, 80′d pop-culture, polotikin’ coffee and frieks in creeks.
