“What do you do in the city?”

“I’m a muralist.”

“What do you love about your work?”

“What I love most about my work is the feeling it gives me. To take a previously mundane surface and splash paint and twist colors around one another, pushing ideas here and there in a mad frenzy until finally a scene pokes its toes into the realm of readability, it gets me higher than anything else ever could. I can’t get enough of it, dancing with my mind and body through dimensions of abstraction and bringing back a handful of solid images to show people where I went.”

“How’d you get started painting murals?”

“When I was 14, I went and saw Banksy’s show in downtown Los Angeles, had my mind blown, and that night I got my first fat marker and drew crazy things all over Venice Beach. A few years later I got swept off to Burning Man and got exposed to the size and intensity of incredible things people can create these days. Upon returning to Los Angeles my murals took on a new fervor and my progress was pushed forward exponentially.”

“Cool! And what kind of experience do you want to people to have when they look at your art?”

“I hope to lure people in with a tasty, digestible, morsel of an image and from there to snatch them into the realm of abstraction, help them dance around with their own subconscious, and deliver them back to their daily life with a slightly dizzy feeling.”

Check out Henry’s work at http://www.facebook.com/LipkisArt