cess and what you want to do.
I used to overthink a lot of my
work, and HG has helped me
go from idea to creating, and
then going back and reworking if I need to.
going back and retouching or
redoing. It’s amazing because
it’s given me structure. As a
professional artist, if you don’t
have a structure, you won’t be
successful.
Good - you answered my next
Do you believe Orlando has
question. I was going to ask if
an art identity?
HG has affected your personI would like to say yes. Honal work. Taking up so much
estly, I think it’s more abof your energy, does it drain
stract based. But the art scene
you of any creativity? Obvihere… urban art hasn’t picked
ously not, based on what I
up the way it’s supposed to. In
see here.
my immediate circle, we do a
It’s like an industry, if you’re
lot of figurative work.
a doctor working private practice and you also work in the
What was the question again?
hospital, eventually there’s
Do we [the Orlando art scene]
going to be something that
have defining characteristics?
suffers. At the beginning, my
I don’t think we do. Orlando’s
Here I Am an Immigrant Against My Will, acrylic on canvas
personal work suffered. Beall over the place. We don’t
cause I wasn’t thinking about
have a concrete scene yet, it’s
what I was going to do here [at Peterson’s studio]. You completely different in each area. We’re so divided, it’s
know I may not be proud of a lot of things in my life, hard to pinpoint what our “scene” is.
but I’m proud that if I died – knock on wood – so