In 2003, I was awarded a 3 month residency at the Norcal Sanitary Fill in San Francisco. My mission was to reinterpret Martha Stewart’s quality of living with discarded houseware and furniture. It was an interesting way of working for me in that whatever I dragged out of the dumpster, told me what to do. Each found object whether it was a dresser, a lamp or a picket fence was magical when I looked at it. The object revealed imaginary cartoons on parts of it and I would haul it back to my studio in a shopping cart where it would undergo a transformation.
Some of the pieces were made in collaboration with long time graffiti pal Nicole Repack, with whom I shared the residency. Our artmaking process is intuitive: we both find objects and then one of us starts drawing, carving, collaging media over and into the piece and then passes it to the other.