"As a budding artist in 1990s SoHo, my weekends were a blur of underground raves, observing the creative quiet of the Christos on Mercer Street, and infiltrating illegal East Village graffiti galleries.
.Keith Haring and Basquiat had bits of their work wallpapered on the streets still. I was deeply moved by the transition of graffiti artists into the fine art world, a raw energy I’ve channeled into this piece. It features a portrait of an 18th-century female hiker in a bonnet, blending precise, iconic portraiture with the chaotic, outline-graphic graffiti style that defined the decade .The environment still shapes the artist.