My wife asks me that all of
the time. I started throwing art
shows. I take heavy hitters and
no namers and put them in the
same room. I call it “Breaking
Barriers”. It was bringing Polynesian tattooing into a Mexican
neighborhood. So it was like,
dog what are you doing here
holmes. So I was like lupia/tacos same thing. Beans/rice …
you know. And because San
Diego is such a melting pot
because of the military, and
Mexico being there and Filipinos because of the Navy, we
are just all mixed together and
people are like hey man they
might beat us up or hey man
those guys might shoot us. to
the hood. We went to the hood,
through it in their area, talkin’
about, let’s break these barriers, let’s break bread, let’s
cross these bridges. Because
there’s no need to be scared coming into each others neighborhood and we
did it through art and expression of art. So you saw people holding hands.
Homie handshake with “mi vida loca” (my crazy life) a Polynesian art. So
people were coming up with those concepts… dias de los muertos (day of
the dead) sugar skulls with Polynesian piece . But you ask me what do I do.
No my time is work and family. If my wife always gets mad because she
says the boys are doing art, why don’t you. I said if I did art, which I don’t
have time to do at work, I wouldn’t have time for them. I see when people
create art, they are doing it because they are not working. They are at the
shop and there has to be a reason why they are there or otherwise you can
go home. So they do art. it’s a means of promoting themselves through any
type of media, art shows, to get them business. But, I’m not going to say
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