Keep your Stupidity to yourself.....

I told myself a long time ago “what people may need to maintain structure and happiness in their life is great, if it works well for them and they remain positive to other, cool.” What I don’t respect are those people who push their shit on others. I can’t even count how many times I was walking through the mall, or at the bus stop as a teen and some creep douche with a bad hair piece approached me and ask me if I found Jesus, and wouldn’t leave me alone till I took one of his handouts. Why are you asking kids, why not ask adults??? Reason: because adult would smack them in the mouth and tell them where to go, adult have already developed a backbone. Listen, if everyone just lived by the golden rule and stop trying to formulation groups and recruit memberships this world would be a much better place. Now I don’t want anyone to think I hate religious organizations I think they do a lot of good for the community, yet at the same time I think some of their reasoning is way off. When you are going to third world countries to “help” yet the first thing you build is a church, I think it’s pretty oblivious why you are truly there. You are there to recruit third world people to believe what you believe and in return give them education shelter and food. A bit twisted if you ask me, but whatever.

So to the real story, I did some stencil murals during the Graffiti Expo 2010. Simple stencils of past work, one was a bit sexy but not too crazy, part of my 213AOE series. They ran for about a year, which in urban art is not a bad run. But it was brought to my attention by my friend and fellow artist, Ryan owner of Rolling Stock Gallery, that someone had defaced my work with some self-righteous bullshit.  “God’s Truth for _______” what the fuck does that even mean???? You know, I might have some respect for this person if they painted over the entire piece and had a real artist do something better over my work like real street artists, but that just seem weak to me. To make it even worst, my website was posted on the side. All they had to do was voice their opinions to me there and I would have explained that this specific work (as shown above, deface, was a series of pieces that hit on the exploitation of the female form and the fact that this form is get more and more exaggerated as history progresses. Long story short, No matter how solid you feel your thought are you are still just a pushy little shit with no backbone. Learn to love yourself and stop trying to impose your shit on other and you will feel a lot better about yourself at the end of the day.

This has been a public service announcement from your friendly artist…..5…..peace

Some Publication and Media.....

Artisticats was one of the first magazine to publish some of my work in early 2009.

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Channel 10 news report featuring a mural I produced in FAT Village with Green Lion, 2011.

One the of best Art zine I have come across.....Catapult Magazine 2011

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THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE 2009

I take a lot of pride in the support of HIV awareness and the public awareness of "issues" in our business system when it come to our citizens being health and happy, healthcare and prescriptions in general. I just recently posted and story about the CEO of Gilead masking the 50 Million dollar club, this is why I like to work with awareness, because so many people are blind to it the fact that there is a lot of people making a lot of money keeping people sick. Not because there is no cure or because there is no money. Simply because they make a shit ton of money keeping people stable. Let me define stable, in the pharmaceuticals eyes, stable is common people who make just above poverty or average American spending tens of thousands of dollars a year purchasing medications to survive. Yet every other week we are developing a way to stay hard or prevent pregnancy. Pharmaceuticals are working hard just not on solving the problem. Why solve a problem is in the end you lost money from it, cure means loss of profits.  

One thing I learned about this show was while doing research, it took me hours to find the census number of  people infected in south florida. A matter of fact I never found a true number. hours I spent on the internet with no result. If awareness was important to the government am pretty sure those numbers would be very easy to find on google. No surprise, if awarness was marketed it would mean loss of profits.... Think Pozitive......5.......

Timeline Wall & Death of Finance Corner

One of the most cumbersome undertaking of the 5 In retrospect show was the "timeline wall & the Death of finance collages". This wall represented my life in vision. What do you put the present you what positivity do you add, what negativity do you add, Where to do draw the line of being PC or being fake. I wanted this wall to represent truth and respect. I wanted to show respect for my family as well as disrespect of specific aspects. I wanted to it show anger, mistakes and triumphs. A collaboration of positive and negative reactions, thus the collaboration we all experience in life. Hopefully the journey of the wall continuous. It's been a backdrop for comedy, and for music. I wonder where it may develop in the future.

I find pride in the fact that people see what I do, without even knowing they see it. a backdrop, a wall mural, a sticker, small subbliminal messages. General smile from people in the art community, in the social community, and in the homeless community. All walk see and exp;lor with no restrictions, or demands.

Images established in these two works could relate with anyone passing by and I think that was the pleasure of the placement of these works. General public placement. It has defiantly made me think more about where the placements are and what category of persons may view t before removal. The concept needs to come across but not with the loss of the dynamics. Dynamics are the turning point.

Dynamics are essential. Thank Ryan @ Rolling Stock Gallery for the images.....5......

Will Work for Healthcare. 2009

I current story reminded me of this work. CEO of Gilead John C. Martins made it into the 50 million dollar club. http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/story/2012-03-20/50-million-club-irani-martin-occidental-gilead/53676412/1. This  keeps me focused on why I distrust anyone involved in the research for a cure, expectally if they are in connection with the

Pharmaceutical companies, when there is so much money in no cure. I produced this work several years ago to explain the lack of care toward HIV research, HIV fertility research, and HIV medication research. It seem after all these years we are still as far from a "CURE" then we were years ago, But there is still penty of people making an Absence amount of money for doing nothing but maintaining. If I maintained at work I do not think I would be so benefited. It really makes you think why would they want to find a cure if they are so benefited from not???????

Love Dub Event

Funny Story: I asked a friend if he might want someone like myself to come out and paint for a show he was DJing. He thought it would be a great idea so I counted myself in. Great music, great people, sounded like a great idea. I entered that night, picked a isolated spot, because that is the atompshere I enjoyed, and began to paint. I had two items I was working on at the present so I brought both. One was a bit taboo and the other a bit tame, but both hung clear in my mind as to what I was trying to produce that evening. The dubstep music that night moved me and I felt more driven to produce the taboo work more then the other. I started the process 213C a third installation of the 213 series.....

I was met with automatic resistance. A lady approached and started to critic the work without even asking about the content. I stood by in shock amazed that someone so openminded in image was so close minded in soul. She called herself a "burner" I guess short for the burning man movement, which I happen to think is amazing. She said that she was an independent woman and that the image offended her. She stated that all she saw was a big vigina. I laughed inside, because the concept of this work is so far from a "Big Vigina". I didn't even expain the work to the  self proclaimed "burner" because I really didn't think she would get it anyway, even though, as she stated,  she dated a conceptual artist, lol. It amazes me how many people call themselves worldly, open and understanding when they are still as straining and imperfect as the rest of us, at least I'm honest in saying I'm just as faulty as the rest of them. Long story short it killed my energy and I stopped my production on the piece within seconds. I started to work on the second more tame work. and really got another pulse of energy during the event. I started to create a more abstract work with alot of vibrate colors and patterns.....

It seemed to go off better then the taboo work with the crowd. I took the work home and added a stain pink overlay and some yellow flares. On top I added a wheatpaste print of my lovely wife as I had imagined, with a dripped out heart in white. I have to say "Thank You" to the lady at the show for switching my attention to the Muse work, I should have probably started on that work to begin with. This piece made it on to The Bad Girls Club season 5. Thanks to that self righteous lady who claimed indepence. Thank You, both works are complete and I couldn't have done it without you. It still surprises me that negative energy can sometimes be as motivating as positive energy, given the situation. In general I will turn anything positive. one beautiful piece about my wife and one beautiful peice about the tragedy of life and vanity in America.....5......