Urban texture is something I’m completely obsessed with, so to capture that essence is a tough thing and I’ve worked on some involved prints, but I think this piece works well and I’m extremely proud of it.ġxRun: What materials were used to create these prints? graffiti and the nature of that particular beast. ![]() A lot of my abstract paintings are moving in this direction - not necessarily so hyper, not so much of the wild style stuff - it’s more of this concept of buff vs. That conflict is in almost all of the paintings that I create, there’s some sort of tackling of those ideas. ![]() In my work there is this conflict between city governments and the graffiti movement. But, the idea isn’t necessarily new, I use a lot of buff and that idea in my work. Saber: It’s a new theme in the sense that I haven’t done anything as representational from this type of photograph. Basically everything is summed up with this photo in the sense that you have this buff that has been crumbled off of these old pieces and what’s left is this little glimpse of that piece of history.ġxRun: Was this piece part of a recent theme or is it a new direction for you? There is literally a billion dollar project that’s going down in the LA river. So we’re dealing with the aftermath of the billions of dollars that have been spent on removing graffiti art. I stumbled upon that particular image in the LA river and it was basically a representation of the post “War On Graffiti” era. ![]() Saber: This was created just for the screen print, and it was inspired by a photograph that I took inside the banks of the Los Angeles river. 1xRun: Tell us a little bit about this piece, was this created solely for this print?
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