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| STATEMENT | Skateboarding was the start of it all. I might have been a little chubby and not the best on the board, but it taught me all about having a practice, something to work on everyday that you get better at it. When I left the wood plank with wheels behind to start listening to hip hop and spray painting my name across other peoples property, the idea of having a practice just blossomed. All day long I was consumed with, conceiving, photographing, and the writing of graffiti.
Then there was a day where I painted graffiti one percent less and then the amount of time that I spent making works of art in my studio. Every day it was one percent less, while the time spent in my studio got longer. And this hard-to-decipher thing called art became my new practice, my new studio practice of everyday painting. My journey started with Lichtenstein and Warhol because art history called their works graffiti art. I then moved further in and on to Richter and Polke, because I wanted to be a painter. When I got sick of making sculptures that I called paintings, I ran over to a cliché Lower East Side style of working, and absolutely loved it. I currently make videos and live in Los Angeles. I am most impressed by video works when I go to the museum because they're flashy and immsersive, and art without technology is something I usually find dull. The move from sculpture to video work was a natural transition because my sculptures were essentially large movie props already.
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