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Last christmas, I was forced to walk to my dad's house from school to do chores , and possibly work with him on his bread truck that same weekend. In the beginning, I had a really bad chip on my shoulder about working with him in the first place due to me and my father's disagreements. One day after school, I decided to walk home for two to three miles on my own. This became a habit for me. One thing that pushed me to walk was my hunger for independence. In the beginning, I felt like I needed to prove something to my father and myself. That I’m not like him or his past. That I can create something on my own without compensation from anyone. Usually, when I work with him, I feel like I consistently get things wrong, and he makes the statement that “I need him." I want to prove to the world and to myself that I can respond differently to my environment in a progressive manner, from manually organizing bread to getting the heavy crates stocked on the trucks, or cooking patties at Hardee's. During the process of making work, I'm trying to do one or two things: imagining elevation in my current situation, or conveying current emotional and mental stress. When I started walking day to day, I began to take photos of buildings. Photos of environments that I thought needed more attention. Around two months before any work was produced, I started having fun with the software SculptGL Modeling software. Here is where I made the connection between the work. Here, I took the advantage to combine my 3D graphic work with my photography. The work also lies at the heart of my history and love for graffiti that accumulated years ago. I want to imitate the act of getting up on the streets through with the intent of using photography. Essentially, my idea is about transferring the spiritual though the machine, and the connection of me processing this work though the computer. In the past, I've always loved drawing graffiti and scanning my work to color, without the common tools of a conventional graffiti artist, such as spray paint. This lead me to explore other ways in which I could express my vision. My interest is taking images of environments in their perpetual state with a combination of my hand work, rather than spray painting or violating property.
