For me this is an exploration in language, using icons to tell a story and represent ideas. I want to explore a graphic language that many did not have the opportunity to enjoy growing up. A visual canon that is not dictated by focus groups, commercially driven, and not tainted with violent edge that can be enjoyed by all age groups, especially children. Just like Jamal Shabazz's wonderful books captures visual sentiment that transcends its time period, there can be a visual system of graphics to personify a feeling representing the urban American experience. (Read: the freakin Hood)
Now whether or not, I'll be able to successfully create a system or language that make a strong asethetic graphic statement doesn't really matter. The exploration and the work alone is more than satisfying. I'm just having fun.
" . . . for a long time I thought of myself as an entertainer and that's all I was. But at some point, an artist started living here too. Artists are different from entertainers. Entertainers are kind of static, sort of. They kind of stay in one place, they do one thing. Artists on the other hand are usually involved in a journey of some kind, they don't know where they're going they just know that they're not there yet. There's a kind of restlessness in an artist, a vague kind of dissatisfaction - and it's because you're always reaching further inside yourself and further outside — or farther." - George Carlin (Huffington Post interview)
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For me this is an exploration in language, using icons to tell a story and represent ideas. I want to explore a graphic language that many did not have the opportunity to enjoy growing up. A visual canon that is not dictated by focus groups, commercially driven, and not tainted with violent edge that can be enjoyed by all age groups, especially children. Just like Jamal Shabazz's wonderful books captures visual sentiment that transcends its time period, there can be a visual system of graphics to personify a feeling representing the urban American experience. (Read: the freakin Hood)
Now whether or not, I'll be able to successfully create a system or language that make a strong asethetic graphic statement doesn't really matter. The exploration and the work alone is more than satisfying. I'm just having fun.
" . . . for a long time I thought of myself as an entertainer and that's all I was. But at some point, an artist started living here too. Artists are different from entertainers. Entertainers are kind of static, sort of. They kind of stay in one place, they do one thing. Artists on the other hand are usually involved in a journey of some kind, they don't know where they're going they just know that they're not there yet. There's a kind of restlessness in an artist, a vague kind of dissatisfaction - and it's because you're always reaching further inside yourself and further outside — or farther." - George Carlin (Huffington Post interview)
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