/>Age: 33
Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA
/>Where do you now live?: Brooklyn, NYC
Where
would you most like to live?: Small, solid building on an Island in
Caribbean, stocked with tons of books, good food and liquor, hundreds of sheets
of smooth maple plywood and a giant box full of acrylics and brushes- But only
in between trips to Brazil, Morocco, The Andes, Baja, etc.
Who was
your first “hero” in life?: Whoever could kill those goddamn
Sleestaks! God damn them!
What is your favorite thing to do on
your day off from work?: Paint, hang with my kids, and Explore NYC
/>What is your favorite color?: Some crazy, deep. intense shade
of green-blue. But not teal.
Who (or what) do you love?:
My family, Art and making more of it, goin fun places.

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/>Who and/or what are some of your influences?

My
parents, Legos, Massimo & Lela Vignelli, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Mr. Grey
(designed the Planter’s Peanut Man), Norman Rockwell (crazy crisp layouts),
Stephen Hawking is smart. Douglas Adams (RIP), Berkeley Breathed.
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What other artists do you most admire?

Chuck
Close, Swoon, Adam Neate, Charles Demuth, Gustav Klimpt, Gaston Lachaise, Edward
Hopper, MF Doom/Mad Villain

How would you describe your
art to someone who could not see it?

A lot of my style
flows from habits learned as a sign maker- one of my first jobs. So- person who
cannot see my work: If you take your hands, and run them over a street sign,
you’ll feel the edges of the vinyl letters, and alot of white space between
them. A lot of my work is like that- relatively bold, using large blocks of
color or white space, offset by small areas of denser, high-detail handiwork. As
for colors: I love intense, often tertiary colors. Try eating an orange, some
kiwi fruits, a star fruit, a pommegranate, maybe a banana. Then chew on a flat-
head thumbtack- carefully- bending the point over sideways between your teeth.
Its hard, metallic, sharp, and the metal should leave tiny traces of flaked
chrome-plating stuck to your tongue. This should help you to get a sense of what
I am going for taste-wise. Pretty, offset by gritty.

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/>What other talent would most like to have?

I wish
I knew how to use all that cool high-tech music gear. I’d have my own studio.
You should hear the kind of music I’d put out! If I only knew how to
play.

What do you fear the most?

/>Organized Religion/Big Governement

What is
your greatest ambition?

To get successful enough not to
have to work at any job I dont want to do, and to Hit the Road.
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