You know I mean so this kinda all like kinda locks
together glues together and makes that shape.
So what is this like geometry?
This is like ghetto origami
Yo we're here in Chrostophe's laboratory,
gettin' hovered above by this crazy eagle.
What is this bro?
This is legend of GFK.
I did this for Wu Tang Clan, their anniversary
last year.
Ghost Face Killer is one of my favorite members of
all time, Wu Tang.
Mine too, agreed.
Is this the joint that be on their arms?
This is the eagle on the arm.
So I tried to look at it from the prospective of
"We don't want this to happen" when Ghost Face
passed away.
A new generation was lookin' back at the legend
of GFK and what that represented.
Now I don't see any paint, not much paint at least.
Like there's, it looks like, some spray paint here.
A little bit
So like what boxes are these?
On this one I used a lot of the Lance Armstrong joints.
Oh okay
See this yellow ring?
I kinda cut the black parts out and used those.
This was like a cross polination of like every
box I could find.
You see the Barney's New York thing right there.
Ahh yeah
And that's a Kobe box right there.
I was just grabbing what I had.
And that's what's great about this art form is
that you can just work with what is available.
Right
You know, and it all works out.
The head is white, the beak is yellow, so are the
feet.
Not only are you makin' this stuff out of boxes.
This is straight up as you found it.
Yeah
And that kind of inspires the work.
You know what I'm sayin?
Sometimes just lookin' at the color pallet, like
those boxes behind you.
Like even this Nike SB box, it's just crazy like
all these decals.
What color scheme does this relate to?
Like I think of something like arctic and cold and
so maybe I go like Polar Bear or somethin' crazy
and use like the white insides or like...that's
how it kinda works sometimes you know what I mean?
Alright so we saw this dude.
We saw this dude, this is Killer Trent.
This is a older piece and I've kept this in my
collection just because this was like a turning
point in learning the craft and how I wanted to
create these and this one was just a melting pot
of everything.
And what I kinda like about it is like through
time and the years all the dust and the grain kinda
adds to that kinda coat.
You know what I mean?
Like he's aging with you.
You know what I'm sayin so...
I'm reading Akron on top of this so clearly it was
a Labron box.
Right
You know I went to design school because I was
not really into anything outside of art.
Luckily I had some empowering teachers that
pushed me and their like "Look just go to portfolio
day in Chicago" so I did that, I got a scholarship
to a school called Cornish in Seattle.
Wow
So the Macklemore's those dudes, we were all hangin'
out together.
That was my group.
Used to go to his shows when he was doin all age
shows and there was like twenty people in the room.
I think this is my favorite just because it's
mounted on like a plaque, it's a trophy like...
Okay now I built this one when I didn't know any
better and I would fill the actual structure with
boxes before I got to the outside.
So you know it's a learning process.
It's a funny story, like a lot of the animals that
I will put in this light have a bad rep to them.
This piece right here is funny, I dunno if you ever
watched the movie
goes, he lives with grizzly's.
Yeah I can't watch that.
Remember when he was interviewing the bear Chocolate.
Yes
Chocolate had the bloodshot eyes and he was
talkin' all nice to it and I thought in my head I was
like "That bear's gonna kill you eventually"
it was sittin' there lookin' at him like
"I can't wait to eat you"
How many days is this?
This one took about three months honestly.
This is the period when there's no Nike's there's
no stores really helpin me out.
So it's like building, searching for more...
that was part of the process in the beginning.
Like that counted as a day.
Like gettin' in my car goin to find ten boxes
here, fifteen boxes here, etcetera.
So to gage it I would say, completely not workin' on
anything else, two weeks.
With all the supplies and workin' on this every day
Exactly
You can do this in two weeks.
I don't even wanna say how fast I can do it.
Nah cause then people, it's gonna be like
"Lemme get fifteen tomorrow"
Nike be like "Lemme get um twenty of those,
I need em on Wednesday"
I'm like "Hold up now"