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March 11, 2004
Profile: Jumbo
Age: 24
Hometown: Sydney
Where do you now live?: Sydney
Where would you most like to live?: Berlin, Warsaw, Portugal
Who was your first "hero" in life?: Anyone from Mad Max, probably Tina Turner
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: Paint and eat
What is your favorite color?: vermillion red
Who (or what) do you love?: Dorothy, Fresh pastry, the local streets, colourful characters, good paints and brushes, clear colours, no beige, hard graphics, new outlines
Who and/or what are some of your influences?
Keith Haring, Patrick Caulfield, Julian Opie, Valerio Adami, Giant, Delta, Modern Architecture, Industrial Estates,
What other artists do you most admire?
The ones that take it to the people, make their ideas seen. constantly evolving, not watching the latest and greatest fashon shows for inspiration, not plagiarising
How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?
visions from a subway under threat from biological attack
What other talent would most like to have?
to be able to write music. to understand mind boggling stuff like philosophy and anthropology
What do you fear the most?
being creatively stagnant, not having foresight, international crisis
What is your greatest ambition?
To change society by way of art
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