Art has saved my life. Being from a murder capital learning how to create kept me away from danger and has connected me iconic people
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I do spontaneous urban abstract surrealism. I have a rare R/G colorblind issue so I had to learn how to create around it. It was inherited according to medical staff. Landscape, portraits, structures any thing that we can see, that style spills over in.
Where do you find inspiration?My memories. Heavy answer but it’s hard to undo what has been done. The charge from a memory sparks me to create to slow the waves down in my mind. I don't need a brush, i use everything anything but so people can see tears, pain, blood, life, death, peace, war, love, passion; meraki inspires me and it only presents itself in art when an artist truly demonstrates from their inner them. Not just self but the past, present & future self. This made me tear up, it is not often I’m asked this.
What would you do with $25,000?Open a new business account open credit. Buy annuals for SHKLZ my company, get copyrights, trademarks, my website, a business lawyer & accountant. Buy matte board & unstretched canvas my substrates. Gallons of heavy body mixed paint, gallons of fluid body mixed paint, loads of spray paint & gloss, gallons of polyurethane, delivery bags, 30" cardboard boxes, packaging tape, online marketing, personal protective, vendor, & production equipment. NYC Park permits for live art events. Remember to eat
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