Bio

Art can change the world,
it can drive innovation, create movement and demand social empowerment. It’s the oldest, most visceral and powerful form of communication; it was communication before communication; and it has the unique ability to combine emotion with action.
“Art is a weapon.”
The first time I heard that phrase I had no idea what it actually meant, I thought it was some cool form of rebellion, a new badge to wear to the “I’m an emotional teenager” support group. But over the course of my life, under the baking sun, during the long hours behind a grill, in the time spent talking to other working artists, in my makeshift home studio or in my free time digging the grime from beneath my nails; I found that angel hiding behind the words and felt the excited anger and joy that first scrawled them across paper, shouted them at a protest or scratched them into a wall. True art moves people to act, positive or negative, it moves us to live and to try to be more than what we are. A song can make you dance or riot. A picture can make you laugh or cry.

I love the fact that something so simple can be so powerful, and that’s why I’ve spent my time struggling at the bottom, worked long hours learning numerous processes and always try to be better than I am. I want to love everyone I come in contact with, I want them to believe that the world isn’t as cynical as they are, I want to give hope where there is none. I just want to change perceptions of our world in a positive way. I want to make people feel something, and drive them to want to reach out and touch their world with that feeling.

Xavier Prou (aka. Blek La Rat) said it best when he said,
“Art must serve a cause, not a militant cause or political but a social one.”
I’m constantly working to develop and expand my abilities and ideas because I want to be able to inspire others to really see the world around them, not just look and forget. I want to help lift the veil that we let permeate our existence, and spread the idea that life is too short to be a race. We see and absorb so much now, were so “connected” that we take for granted the ability to understand a mental picture. We grow up and run through our lives so quickly, with our heads down or on the next big thing, that we’ve lost concern for what we touch. Familiarity sets in, we travel through our lives repetitively and we forget the beauty of our existence. Children lack this detachment, and you can see that wonder and understanding in their demeanor and eyes. They love the world, and life is an experience, not a thing. I want to bring that connection back and help perpetuate the mindset that everything we do is art. How you live, how you breathe, what you feel, how you act, the track you take to work, how you kiss your kid at night; it’s all art, it’s all communication and it’s your form of expression, your mark on this earth.

As the graffiti writer known as Revs put it:
“You don’t even realize how everything is graffiti. It’s man’s ability to want to live on, to procreate… a man goes to work everyday, pumps out five, six kids and gives them his last name; that’s graffiti right there.”
Art is the experience. It’s what our world gives to us, and how we give it back. It’s not colors on canvas or writing on the wall, those are just the vehicles. A beautiful painting can give us the art of happiness or comfort, a beautiful song can give us hope or sorrow, a lover’s embrace can make us create a masterpiece, and a kiss can move us to change the world or destroy it. Life is art, it’s the expression of what we are, good or ill. I sling paint as part of my art, my experience of living. I try to only make genuine, honest, and loving art, and give that to everyone I come in contact with.

What kind of art are you creating?