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Oh
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when you first come into the building
I wanted that there was something that
draws you to this distance because it's
a flat wall in this sort of
architectural scape that is full of
dimension and curves it needed something
that pulls you in it's titled nature of
language deals with the hand and the
mark making the humanity in creating
something I feel it's a reflection on
the history of language whose painting
is about where do languages come from
there are so many diverse languages all
the words are the names of languages the
names of countries that they come from
the names of people that have been
influential to the studies of those
languages the names of people also
influential to the region here in
Raleigh could be like the pea da ha
language that's whistled in the jungle
or street slang it could be about
anything that's used to communicate my
background as an artist is pretty
diverse and universal because I love
drawing and I can you know just as
easily pick up a camera and you know
enjoy taking pictures but writing in
calligraphy is very important to me
because there's a gestural form and a
language in that is as well what's going
on is you know a word will come into my
mind and in a stream of consciousness I
follow there's a certain flow that I
know where the lines going and into the
next world for painting done by one
person by one artist about language in
this sort of landscape is reminding the
person confronted by the painting about
something that was made by hand it's
reminding each person to connect back to
that origin amongst all of the
futuristic aspect of this library it's
great that there's an artist involved I
was always interested in art even from a
very early stage I was introduced to the
very early stages of hip-hop culture the
fact that kids were creating their own
art through music through dancing
through painting it was really very
important to us a group of friends and I
were exhibiting in the underground
exhibitions in New York City
we had Japanese friends as part of the
exhibit making music and experimenting
and that it was a really successful
exhibition in terms of how many people
loved it and participated and one of our
Japanese friends said you know I want to
bring this to Japan I'm gonna start
working on it
from that first time of working in Japan
I got more invitations from Hong Kong
and London Australia I then was invited
to exhibit more in the United States my
work becoming known in a large scale I
was invited to work with architects to
do large-scale Commission's somewhere
like what I'm doing here the
conversations that I had with Susan
Nutter when I first met her with Craig
dijkers here I automatically understood
that she's an experimental person in
terms of how she wants to move education
forward in the library setting it's not
supposed to be a necessarily quiet type
of library she's promoting interaction
with people and she's saying interact
get together create I did take on a lot
of the architecture but also coming here
and taking a look at the crowns and
spending time in the space this is an
expression of this particular trip in my
life so you can say is a direct mirror
of this experience that I've had here in
Raleigh and in the hunt library it's all
of those things combined and therefore
creating a very busy very energetic work
and at the same times tries tries to
find a peaceful balance in this energy
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I'm really contrasted and like where
humans are going to be going in the
future exactly what's going to happen to
us as you know technology keeps on
advancing we're probably going to lose a
lot of our identity and like what makes
us different so these people are a
result of this idea they're on very
geometrical kind of robotic almost with
technology right now it makes our lives
a lot easier but there's always
consequences to that so whether it's
good or bad I can't say