If people wanted to work with you, have a chat or buy something – how should they get in touch? But lately I’ve been listening to different types of music and blasting it while I draw and see what inspires me for those sessionsĪ custom acoustic guitar featuring art and embellishments by Ricky. The face drawing is more of an anxiety thing if anything… if i’m nervous, they usually spill out of my pen. I felt so terrible I thought of this and how it felt how I felt. An example of this is when my girlfriend broke up with me I drew a picture of me on a person’s shirt that had his eye balls popped out while a lady sat on the curb with her guts hanging out with a flower blooming from it. If I’m feeling a very strong emotion I’ll make and actually piece that has more thought. I sit down and put myself into a very loose feeling when drawing the sheets of my thousands of faces… so that way I could avoid repeating. Please describe the usual process involved with producing your art?
People at my school love it, when in reality these picture are a reflection of my anxiety and feelings towards her… but on good day the faces will look more happy and structured instead of being rushed. I haven’t felt fine since the event and with that event came the faces. I started the face thing as an insanity project. So my art’s taken a weird turn, and future projects I’ve been planning. She was my muse, and now that I don’t have that my mind wonders all over the place and I’m going crazy. I really didn’t have a lot of people that supported any of my art… but that one person was always my girlfriend (now my ex.) I would make her nicer doodles and those turned into notes, then doodles and notes and finally pieces of actual art… I would pour my heart into a note for her and followed it with a very small piece of detailed art. I loved sketching terribly quick faces and giving long gross mouths and just seeing peoples reactions. I started art over a year and a half ago. … and any pivotal artistic moment(s) / influence(s)? When and why did you first start to make art? “ Smile, pick yourself up and put on a grin.” – Me “ If you love God so much, burn down a church.” – Jello Biafra “ When life turns it back on you, grab it by the ass!” – My Dad
I would wander around and talk to other students about these little plastic art bead things, and I would sell them from 5-7th grade. I still didn’t know who I was and recognised that there where certain social classes to school and how I didn’t fit in any of them.Īt this year of my life I also discovered Tiny Tim and little did I know he’d still stick to me. Our Family moved to Whittier, and we continue to live here. On one occasion I sang Dead Puppies to my parents after receiving news that someones dog was put down. Demento and I would sing Fish Heads, Dead Puppies, Squirrels. One of my earliest memories of these talks was my friend Ishmael saying in a very feminine way, “I’m Micheal Jackson, look at me, I’m gay.” I didn’t know what it meant but laughed anyway.
I would bond with the other classmates about video games and why Micheal Jackson was very scary to us. I was significantly better battling my on going seizure episodes and became slowly more social. I was very unaware I was “sick” so I still lived life going to the park with my parents, and watching shows like the Jetsons, Richie Rich, and The Pink Panther before going to school on the bus at 5am. So doctors began feeding me certain medicines to see what will fix me. I was very sick as a child having a spastic brain and getting seizures was a normal thing. (Held my pencil funny and basically thrashed around by being verbal and on one occasion spat in a teachers eye.) I was very disruptive and fidgety going to school and was always that crazy boy. The school teachers wanted to put me in special ed classes because I always wanted to do things my way as a kid. Please describe some memories from key stages of your life: concerts, art, toys, romance, hunting, school, politics, misbehaving, religion… ANYTHING really!