I feel like every time i start a new mural like it's the first
There are definitely different obstacles that i'm having to kind of work around
with every location being its own unique surface or environment.
With the skinny raven mural it was a collaboration with
Ash Adams a local photographer I think I was out there day and night for about
two weeks.
It was pretty stressful because I really didn't know how it would turn out and
mainly because of the texture of the wall was just so rough it's called
stucco, where it's like painting on velcro. But what i found is you know I
jumped into it and I felt like I could pull off the vision i had with what I
was dealt with as far as challenges.
You spend x amount of hours doing that pattern it eventually becomes
like you're on autopilot or it's like a second nature where the effort that goes
into it is less.
The image itself it was more about the land and the people, but we were using
skateboarding as a way to express that.
I think I was three years old, my brother got a skateboard and I tried
it out and it's just one of those things that it just felt so good. I realized all
I wanted to do was skateboard.
Just the whole process of coming up with an idea
and believing in something that you can do and then executing it or applying
yourself to the idea.
As soon as I got hold of a video camera it basically led to like the next
two decades of a lot of filming. You go out filming with your friends and as
soon as you get home you all crowd around the TV and you review the footage
was something I found really enjoyable and I think it's led to a lot of
different things that I do.
If there was one thing I had to like say skateboarding taught me most is it just like how to look at things
and how to you know just approach challenges in your life.
I was 25 years old and just really confident on my
skateboard and out of the blue I blew out my left ACL on my knee.
I could feel this heavy depression coming on kind of a confusion with what do I do with myself that's where
I found drawing.
I spent like literally a year drawing from the moment I wake up to
going to sleep and then repeating it.
It was taking my mind off of skateboarding basically.
My friend Jen had this zine she was making it was a local punk scene called
AK Ink. She asked me if i wanted to do a comic
strip for the back cover of it. The comic strip was about a soda called good drink.
And good drink basically just like wreaked havoc as it got bigger and
bigger and more popular it kind of set the setting
for what I would be drawing to this day.
Moments where humanity is kind of getting through it
and surviving.
For me drawing has protected me in so many ways. Now I see my daughter and
she's drawing like all the time. I've said so
many times to her like please don't stop. You go through life and if you have it
all or if you have nothing it's like if you have something that you spend your
time doing that you enjoy you really don't need much else. A lot of
people forget how short life is. What better way to spend it than doing what
you enjoy.