These are not Nazi swastikas. They’re from a Kali temple in Singapore. You know Kali the destroyer goddess? She wears chains with severed heads on them, spit-roasts little babies, things like that. It’s pretty cool.
“Fake Cop Kills Banker”: This is a silkscreen I made a while ago. It’s a headline from the
New York Post. This guy dressed up as a cop and would pull people over on the highway and kill them.
I found an old book about prisons in India and this is an execution where they use an elephant to stomp someone’s head off. It was a real form of execution!
I use a lot of found images in my art. These bumper stickers and news clippings are the sorts of things I like. The one that says “51% Motherfucker, 49% Son of a Bitch” is a Hell’s Angels sticker.
This Polaroid was taken by the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. It was at the karaoke bar he owns in Tokyo. Me and Banks Violette, a friend of mine who is also an artist, went there to do karaoke and he took photographs of us and gave them to us. The picture makes me really happy.
This is a drawing of a Russian prison tattoo of Charles Manson as Jesus.
The Suicidal Tendencies hat is from Japan. I had one when I was a little kid but I lost it. Their aesthetic really reminds me of being 13. I was living in Norway and their whole West Coast Latino gangster style had a big influence on me.
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