Personal Graff (throwup), circa 1986-89.

There's a great quote by the writer Bell Hooks that I had tacked onto my studio wall when my studio was down in the city. I just found it while going though some papers. It sums up in a short passage what it is that I try to persue in my own work.

"I have been working...to incorporate in the manner of telling a sense of place, of not just who I am in the present but where I am coming from, the multiple voices within me. I have confronted silence, inarticulateness. When I say, then, that these works emerge from suffering, I refer to that personal struggle to name that location from which I come to voice." -Bell Hooks

While going through these papers I also found a photo of one of my graffiti throwups on an F train circa mid to late 80"s. Wish I would have documented more on this part of my life.