| I paint people. Using friends as subjects, I try to reflect a feeling of each personality in all individual works. I choose not to include a background because i want each piece to focus solely on the subject. Instead, I leave all drips and marks which occur during the painting process. I do this because I feel it is important to show some of the history of the final product. I like to leave visible brush strokes because I want my paintings to look like paintings. I do not believe in doing a painting to look like a photograph. I take influence from many different areas of art. From traditional artists like Lucian Freud, graffiti artist David Choe and portrait and tattoo artist Shawn Barber. Surrounding myself with creative people is also very important to me and my work. |
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"Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood." -Baudrillard
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"If you can't get rid of the skeletons in the closet- at least teach them how to dance..." George Bernard Shaw
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What you think he means Tonight You?
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There are a million in the Church tonight.
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There are a million in the Church tonight.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. -Oscar Wilde
Love your work, Cant wait to see your gallery at Kilau!
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im the best there is at what i do...but what i do isnt very much
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Un moi alternatif
An alternative me
Symon Dé
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