Morgan Febrey: Mario, what’s up? So you’re
like Schrödinger’s cat, you simultaneously
have a show in Europe, an opening in New
York, DJing a dance club in Denver, and
out shooting pool on the apparent same
night. Are you actually a quadruplet or how
the hell do you get all this done? And yes,
Schrödinger’s cat is a terribly inappropriate
analogy for this.
Mario Zoots: Hey Morgan! Schrödinger who?
Well, I like to stay busy, I like to do things,
I like to say YES. I’ve met so many people
by working this way and it usually opens up
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unique opportunities and new avenues to
distribute my work to different audiences.
It’s fun to stay busy, I guess I’m afraid of the
phone never ringing one day or an empty
email inbox. I figure I might as well do things
while the need is there. It’s like Drake said,
“YOLO.”
Morgan Febrey: You have a background in
graffiti. What got you started and at what
age? Was that your first creative passion?
What’s your single greatest creative outlet
these days?
graffiti tags done in Denver were around
1996, I was like 14. I don’t know if I was
really into art before I learned graffiti. I think
being a back alley tagger is the reason I
became an artist, I learned a lot during that
time, the good and bad. I learned that you
have to be possessed to really become
good at something, and that it takes 10
years to become a master of something. I
learned about how important documentation
is of what you do, I learned about film and
composition in photography. I was taught by
friends about color theory and placement.
Mario Zoots: Yeah, graffiti. I think my earliest
My mother told me that when I was younger,