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Art Chick, Poet Human | Brooklyn, New York

Brief Resume
Squeezed out of the womb, moved around a lot, always loved art supplied especially their smell, was valedictorian of my highschool class in holland, studied tons to make my Brain grow, played a lot of sports and hurt my knee, wrote a lot in little books, sharpened my colored pencils, looked out the window, moved to new york city, struggled stuggled and the city changed, made a bunch of pictures and bookies about the Weird Life we live and also played pinball and ate gummy worms… now, i am still making making writing thinking splatting and wonder where it will take me


Projects
Whatever whenever writing writing writing, making bookies of all shapes & sizes, painting things, illustrations, i just left my job where i was a design director for a major entertainment website which gave me a headache nonstop and made my eyeballs dangle from their sockets, saying things in different forms, dabbling with photography and that polaroid camera i love so much, trying to get as much of it Out you know that stuff that gets clogged in your Brain

Inspiration
All those great creative minds out there, dr.seuss, roald dahl’s “james & the giant peach”, shel silverstein;s “where the sidewalk ends”, all amazing writer poet people lawrence ferlinghetti, alan ginsberg, peoplethat seem to just shoot it out RAW,, basquiaT, missy elliot, miles davis, ralph steadman, charles mingus, gerald scarfe, amazing photojournalists & documentary film makers, crazy conversations& quotes, the music of the Madness, the hustlebustle of everyday Life, the struggle, the Swollen moments, Love, Hate, Powerful Things that Last and the anticoloring book which my parents bought me when i was little.


Favourite url’s for inspirations
www.dictionary.com, www.seussville.com, any art/design portal www.adbusters.org, www.colorsmagazine.com

My Toolbox
Anything I can find in the dumpster, actually anything I can find in general, inks inks, GLUE!, I love tape, label makers, stamps, penspenspencilspaints, scanner, printer, computer, copy machine, sticks and twigs, fingers, PAPER!, cardboard, woodwoodwood [preferably old], polaroids, its all goooood