I've Been drawing since I was a little kid. I remember my dad asking me what I wanted to do with my life when I was quite young, and I would always tell him that I wanted to be an artist. I was always drawing and every year that passed my work improved drastically. I won a lot of awards for art in my school career, and that fueled my desire to continue my passion. My dad, being the conservative money-minded man he is, would continously tell me to get a real job, saying that art doesn't pay well. I chose to follow my dreams and found out he was right. My relationship with him went sour around age 15 and I have been couch surfing on and off since. Despite being homeless a great deal of the time I stayed enrolled in school and did as well as I could. My grades weren't all that great but my As came from my art classes, and I managed to make money for food and supplies through commisioned work from teachers and kids at school. Due to the awesome generosity of many people and very kind mentors in my life I've had food, places to stay and art supplies to continue my work throughout my school career. I'm 19 now and the struggle continues. I got a job at a silk screen print shop where I've been working for peanuts printing shirts and doing design work for customers. I make a modest 9.50 hourly in Los Angeles, which at the end of the month means you can rent a real dump of an apartment and eat carpet and shoes all day, and thats about it. So I opted to spend my money on food, education and supplies. Between having lived in LA squats and my truck I'm paying my way through a community college hoping to score a few scholarships to get me into a good art school. I currently reside in a married couple's garage, whereas compared to prievious accomodations I live like a king. School supplies, rent and food clean me out though at the end of the month. There was at one point I was living rent free for 3 months, and I had a lot of spare cash to really focus on my art, and as a result I did some of my best work. I could really use that again. Most of my time now is spent working or in a classroom, which unfortunately doesn't give me time enough to even sit down for an hour or two and draw. I have pages of notes, concepts and ideas that I'd like to take further but I have no money or time to pursue them. But enough of my sob story, here's what I've done.



I've got a pretty wide body of work, I've picked up and experimented with just about everything but my favorite medium is paint. I've also included a song from my band Plasturd, we play punk rock and we're all couch surfers, our music kind of reflects the day to day frustrations of life and the messed up things that go on behind closed doors every day. I assure you though in person I'm a pretty upbeat guy. :) Hope you enjoy.



The song is titled Cash-in of the Christ, and above is the cover art I did from the CD cases that we printed and hand made since we couldn't afford professional work or recording. We titled the album appropriately.



CASH-IN OF THE CHRIST



by nobodysdriving