Interview with Vision of Life Magazine March 21, 2006
October 26, 2010
When did you discover your talent?
I was always a very creative kid. I would ask for paper for Christmas and my birthdays. I also would set up an art stand to sell drawings and yarn bracelets for fifteen cents when my parents had company. I think I really discovered my talent when I began eating LSD at 15. That's when everything really triggered in me and I had the most influences shooting my way. It started with black and white detailed drawings, some really psychadelic and abstract. These first drawings are what I showed at my opening show in San Antonio. Around the age of 16 began my fascination with Street Art. I found grafitti to be comforting, especially when it was my own and I saw it around. I knew not many women wrote grafitti but I didn't care. It was proof that I existed, that reality as we see it can be manipulated. This discovery led to immense creation.
What are you expressing?
I use different styles of art to express emotion or feeling. Currently, I have returned to my old style, super psychadelic and detailed. These pieces have always been "brain maps" for me. I call them, fractals of the mind. Most can understand this concept because it is a common practice. Many people doodle in intricate and detailed forms and this is none other than the pattern of their thoughts. Grafitti and Urban Abstracts are a reaction to our environment. I think any grafitti artist does grafitti because of a reaction to an artificial or even industrial environment. Street art is up and it is FREE art which is the most beautiful thing in the world to me. I also see it as a celebration of the hip hop culture and a yearning to make that community grow and continue.
What means "art&creation" for you?
Creation, in an artistic sense, is the impulse to respond to life by combining matter to make something visual that you and others can respond to with emotion. Art is the result of creation.
I was always a very creative kid. I would ask for paper for Christmas and my birthdays. I also would set up an art stand to sell drawings and yarn bracelets for fifteen cents when my parents had company. I think I really discovered my talent when I began eating LSD at 15. That's when everything really triggered in me and I had the most influences shooting my way. It started with black and white detailed drawings, some really psychadelic and abstract. These first drawings are what I showed at my opening show in San Antonio. Around the age of 16 began my fascination with Street Art. I found grafitti to be comforting, especially when it was my own and I saw it around. I knew not many women wrote grafitti but I didn't care. It was proof that I existed, that reality as we see it can be manipulated. This discovery led to immense creation.
What are you expressing?
I use different styles of art to express emotion or feeling. Currently, I have returned to my old style, super psychadelic and detailed. These pieces have always been "brain maps" for me. I call them, fractals of the mind. Most can understand this concept because it is a common practice. Many people doodle in intricate and detailed forms and this is none other than the pattern of their thoughts. Grafitti and Urban Abstracts are a reaction to our environment. I think any grafitti artist does grafitti because of a reaction to an artificial or even industrial environment. Street art is up and it is FREE art which is the most beautiful thing in the world to me. I also see it as a celebration of the hip hop culture and a yearning to make that community grow and continue.
What means "art&creation" for you?
Creation, in an artistic sense, is the impulse to respond to life by combining matter to make something visual that you and others can respond to with emotion. Art is the result of creation.
