How’s that working out?
Kids get better as they get older.
Up until they get to like 12, they stay your
best buddy.
Yep [laughs]. Everything revolves around him,
we go biking, racing motocross.
When did you start making stuff you would
say is your art?
I was in high school, riding bikes. We would do
zines and propaganda posters and stuff like
that. Around the same time I was playing in a
band, so I would do all the flyers and t-shirt designs and stuff like that.
What kind of band was it?
making?
Punk.
When you say punk, do you mean like poppunk or old punk?
“Punk” punk, like Black Flag, the Ramones. Definitely old-school punk.
So you’re making stuff for your band —
what were you drawing for the stuff you’re
A lot of skate and bicycle stuff, that’s what I’m
into.
At that point do you say you’re an artist?
I did. I started painting around that same time,
too, just having fun with it.
You’ve got this style that’s radically different from a lot of art in this area, very
colorful. What informs your style?
Where’d it come from? Being a part
of the skate culture in the what, late
80s, early 90s?
Late 80s. Yeah, a lot of it has to do with
skate scene, tattoo scene, BMX stuff.
I hated reading back in school, but
when I did read, it was sci-fi, and you
can see that in a lot of the artwork too.
[he pulls up an image from his gallery
online, showing a woman trying to keep
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