SPLICED LIFE /
ISSUE 02
CREATIVE PROFILE / SKULLBOY
by Isaac Kosmides
Skullboy is the kind of artist you want to have a beer with. His
work is dirty, unpretentious, and above all, unwaveringly honest. A
graphic designer by day in the balmy subtropics of KZN, by night
his alter-ego is found creating high-contrast works designed to
brazenly peek beneath the skirts of our most human conditions.
Last year he managed to get 100’s of anonymous participants
to share the details of their first times. He then illustrated their
intimacies in large format and exhibited in Durban. Isaac Kosmides
asks him how he did it; and what’s next…
You often post pages from your sketchbook, is
that were it all starts for you?
My process really starts with a handful of ideas
bubbling at the back of my head. Due to time
constraints during my day, I don’t get to spend as
much time as I’d like in my sketchbooks so I’ll carry
an idea around for a few days and develop it in my
head before I actually get a chance to put it down.
Initially you were decidedly protective over your
identity, is Skullboy the Superman to your Clark
Kent?
These days, it’s no epic secret who the identity
of ‘Skullboy’ is. I still use the alias mostly out of habit
and also for the simple fact that ‘Skullboy’ gets to say
and do things that my 9-5 self can’t. I get to blame all
the dirty words and drunk nights on ‘Skullboy’.
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