Favorite piece in your personal collection?
I got this thing called Baby Hates My Music. It’s a guy playing guitar
to this baby’s head. The baby has arms and it’s covering its ears. It’s by
Christian Glen. He’s an Australian artist. I got it from New York. When
he came to visit, I asked him if I could have it. He just gave it to me.
For the Hummingbird itself, it didn’t really have a theme. But when I
think of hummingbirds, or birds themselves, it’s really free. You know,
really light. I feel like it’s almost like, a new beginning, taking flight
somewhere. So, that’s why I started doing that. I gotta take it down
and finish it because I just assembled it that day, just so I could hang it
for the show.
How do you think your art reflects who you are?
Yeah, sketchy looking. Kinda. ‘Cause I like to make everything clean, WOES didn’t have enough pieces and needed guys to fill it up. So it
[I] try to be a perfectionist, that’s who I am, I want to be a perfectionist. basically wasn’t supposed to be our show. He put us in to take the
Detail of Hummingbird, acrylic, spray paint, and ink on wood
But, in reality, it’s more patchy, like a wildcard kind of deal. I wanted pressure off, which is nice, because if I was short on pieces, I would call
to show something I liked which is more to the eye like it’s a celebra- friends in. I think that’s true, too, you get more people out. I think it
tion, like a festive look, I like that.
was a new beginning, and a salute, a more stronger, lighter, you know,
it was less heavy.
If you can see festivity in pause motion, this would be the art. You
know, something that’s like, whoosh! Celebration, surprising people, I wanted to add more to it, like flowers and dimensions, but I didn’t
just like a lot of like, that feeling, you know? Everybody’s off work and have that happen because I was like, you know what? I woke up, finthey’re just enjoying a Sunday barbecue for something. That feel.
ished painting a mural at 8 o’clock in the morning, I came here, and I
fell asleep for like, two hours. Like, dude, I mean, the show’s coming
Do you have a statement to make about your recent Humming- soon so I just knocked it out thirty minutes before I drove it down there.
bird piece at the Redefine Gallery?
That was one I made this year in January. I was just like, you know Do you have anything that people should be looking out for?
what? I’m gonna do quality vs quantity - one piece that I really have Things coming up that you want to mention?
an idea for - and try to execute it that month. Even though I finished it I wish. I think we’re making a book soon. Hmmm. We’re trying to get
early, I’ll still go back and work until I complete it. I think if you pace a book made in Germany. That might be cool; I’ve never had a book
yourself like that, you can put more thought into it.
made. It might be a coffee table kind of deal. So, a lot of pictures, maybe
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