Domino's Room

Bienvenue! Here are a few shots of my nearly finished latest mural - it's for a cool 7 year old whose nickname is 'Domino' - check it out! I'll be back soonish with photos of the furniture I'm custom painting for his room, it's gonna be so ill!! Thanks for stopping by!

Sneak Peek: New Paintings!

(detail)

(detail)

Yeah yeah yeah!! I'm back again with a sneak peek at the new work - I was trying to keep it under wraps until the upcoming solo show at Finesse, but I'm too stoked and have to give you all a lil look. I've been working nonstop on a new body of abstract work that has a much stronger focus on texture and patina than my previous work, and in short tries to visually elucidate the amorphous relationships between homo sapiens, technology, and the urban environment. This style is extremely time consuming and laborious, because it basically involves layering several paintings on top of each other and discarding the majority of each to make a single new painting. This stacking of layers as a process is evidenced partially as texture within the final painting, and perhaps makes a statement of its own regarding the structure of the aforementioned relationships. The photos you see here (more to come before the show!) are details of much larger works, and obviously aren't very efficient at capturing the texture or patina of the work, so you just gotta come to the show to really check it out!

Boom! Robots.

Whoa, watch out big guy! This robot is about to earn himself a Darwin award, smoking while holding that dangerous bomb. What is he doing up there, you say? Smashing the city of course... Pesky robots!!! Where'd they come from, you ask? Read on...

Yo! So a funny thing happened yesterday. I was chillin' at my homie Bmar's house in Sylvan Lake, and then 'BOOM!' all of a sudden (over the course of 13 hours) a gang of giant robots busted through the wall!! They were being real jackasses, savagely demolishing buildings and wreaking havoc on infrastructure with their lasers and bombs, but you know how robots are.

This guy kept rapping in weird robot voice the whole time, it was pretty good i guess.

But yeah, pretty much a battleground in there. And you know those damn robots aren't sticking around to help clean up.

This robot had a fancy hat. 

Finesse Home Living Mural

Greetings! What's percolatin'? Here are a couple quick shots of the mural I just finished at Finesse Home Living here in Edmonton (better photos soon!), where I'll likely also be showing my newest group of paintings (which have yet to hit the internet) over the next several months. They got in touch with me looking for something graffiti oriented to go along with the furniture in their new Environment brand showroom. Environment is an L.A. based furniture brand that designs consciously and is extremely aware of its own environmental footprint, going the length of making sure their business is carbon neutral every year through carbon credits, among other things. One of their furniture lines is built from reclaimed Peroba Rosa, an endangered Brazilian wood. They reclaim the wood from old Brazilian buildings and refinish it, satisfying the demand for furniture made from it without harvesting any living trees. I wanted to illustrate this and the rest of the brand's identity through the imagery and feel of the mural, as well as create something big and bright to scare people when they come around the corner!

Tha Format Episode 1

The final work.

Episode 1 of Tha Format

Here it is! The pilot episode of Tha Format, the Hiphop show for youth that I've been lucky enough to be a part of - I created the backdrop for the studio (pics above) that I posted shots of earlier, and also host a segment on graffiti (peep the end of part 3 for ya boy!) called Blackbook Sessions. The first instalment, which is shown here, was my concept, which was filmed, edited, and taken to the next level by Grant Smith. Shoutout to Taro, Erin, Angela, Conway, Musa, Daniel, and the rest of the squad too!

Be Relentless

Me and Tyler kickin' it.

Relentless (aerosol in collaboration with Tyler Huskins, 2012)

"Buffalo Marley"

Ayo! This is a piece I created in collaboration with a young cat, Tyler Huskins, in the Youcan office at Westmount Jr. High here in Edmonton. The fine people at Youcan got at me and asked to come in and show Tyler some things with spraypaint in a legal setting that he could potentially hope to earn money with eventually. The word 'Relentless' was chosen in reference to the office's style of youth work - they never give up on the youth. In that spirit, Tyler and I painted this piece in one 12 hour session. I'll be updating this post with better photos when I get a chance.