To simply answer this question, I’m a workaholic. If I truly kept up with everything I wanted to, you’d be seeing even more coming from me, haha. The way I see it, the choice to be an artist of any kind is to choose to never be satisfied. I work for the enjoyment of working, but I also work to survive and to feel a sense of achievement. So I’m always chasing that high! It’s kind of a never ending cycle of that feeling. I’m constantly drawing/printing/painting/designing. I have to force myself to stop and take breaks, which I have a difficult time with. I also don’t do too well with conversations that aren’t about passionately making things. Like making small talk with people is exceedingly hard for me. And especially in the current state of the world, what the hell is small talk?! Ain’t nothing small to talk about anymore!

I would say my work, and me as a person, aims to entertain and serve as a vehicle for happiness much more than it aims to solve any problems or discuss them. So a challenge would be that as an artist, you work your whole life to get to where you are. And the art world in tandem with popular culture is always changing and reinventing itself. So the voice you’ve spent your life developing could go out of style in an instant. I would say I overcome this issue with removing myself from the contemporary trend. Instead, I tend to delve into either etherial or universal subject matter. Sometimes I like to think of my work as templates for TFW memes, In describing obscure and specific feelings with metaphor. All and all, what a treat it is to do what I love for real! I’m thankful everyday, every time someone buys something from me or even just shows love.

Yeah its hard to say, I spend so much time secluded making work already. But it has offered a period of time where there is also no added pressure to go out and be distracted. However, it has also made it harder for me to find help in the studio when I need it. Right up until quarantine, I was starting to have a lot of close friends excited about our new projects and helping me in the studio. It was super inspiring and heartwarming. But yes, the silver lining would be getting some time to myself and staying super focused internally, without planning too far into the future with traveling or socializing. I feel like I found some new levels of grounding in every part of my life. It seems like, when everything else feels like chaos, it becomes clear where the solid ground is.

Well I have a super developed studio that is a couple miles from our home. I work in both places. Recently I’ve been doing drawing and designing at the house exclusively, and in the studio I make paintings and screenprint fabric or on clothing.

Well sometime in 2017, I started to make these hand-drawn pants using sharpie, by special request from a friend. Right away the medium was really working for me, it totally transformed my career as an artist. Before I knew it, I was booked solid with orders for about a year and half. I think that Posty’s stylist caught wind of me via instagram and reached out. It’s not directly traceable, but there have been many new projects as result of the Posty outfits, this collaboration being one of them

My creative process is like a total sensory overload. I suppose I start new ideas everyday, and then work on multiple different things at a time. So I’m always multi- tasking on a mountain of different pieces and always finishing at least something! I constantly make stream of consciousness drawings, and those typically turn into bigger ideas. I also work in a very premeditated manner, where I have pretty clear visions and ideas that I then pursue. I don’t question my visions before drawing them out. I like to analyze them once they are complete, like you would a vivid dream, because they are essentially the same thing.

I’m definitely inspired by my friends/peers nationally and internationally. I feel as though I’ve been really lucky with magnetically being drawn to the right people throughout my life. I’ve had the privilege of knowing some really special artists in many different mediums, and that has shaped my work hugely. In watching other people’s careers shape up, it’s gratifying to know that the work speaks for itself most of the time. I mean sure you need to put yourself in the right place at the right time, but I believe in the work speaking for itself. I also believe that friendship and strength among artists is really the key to success. Critique among peers and sharing tips about professionalism has helped me navigate the uncharted waters of being an artist...kinda touching on your earlier question.

But, lets see, my biggest influences are Karl Wirsum, Robert Colescott, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Robert Crumb, and Vaughn Bode.

I’m most inspired early in the morning, with too much coffee in my system after getting a good amount of sleep. Thats when the sketching and planning happens (therefore when inspiration hits). I then can work straight through the night until sunrise if the foundational work for a piece is done. I’m most inspired by the things in the dream realm (sleeping or awake), road trips, random interactions with strangers, trash and or abandoned spaces, and nature experiences. There was a point in my life where psychedelics played a huge roll in inducing and navigating visions, but I had enough for a while and I’m still processing all of that. Actually the least difficult part of my practice is finding inspiration or having new ideas. It really is a constant, so much that inspiration actually can be annoying. We could be having a conversation about something important, and I need to interrupt it with a random idea I had from a piece of garbage we passed. It’s like this all the time. I’m always in my own universe thinking about the next thing to make. I could live a million years and not be able to complete it all.

At this point I mostly just wear clothes that either my friends made, I made, or just classic timeless thrift store/vintage joints. I definitely don’t give a shit about what is hot or what the trend is, for me its all about art, vibrancy and finding unique items. If there is some crazy fitting halloween grandma cardigan for a buck at the garage sale, you’re bouta see your boy wearing it! I guess I live to make things I think are cool, instead of trying to figure out what is “cool”. But it’s rare that I’m wearing an outfit that I didn’t mostly make or alter.

Yeah, for the most part I’m building Time Change Generator everyday. It’s basically just the name for my studio in which I make small editions of prints on fabric/clothing. It’s a slowly growing masterpiece for me to focus on. Other than that I’m constantly making images and designs for people, they slowly trickle out into the world as clothing, album covers, etc.

I’m excited about everyday that I wake up healthy enough to keep making art, and get to be around people that I love and that love me. So really, life is the most exciting project! Other than that, I can’t do an interview right now without mentioning that ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER, and PLEASE FUCKING VOTE!

Peace and Love