I walked to this exhibition and this guy was standing there looking awesome so I said, “Is this your art?”
“Yessir.”
“It’s super cool. What’s your story?”
“I grew up around the world so I got to experience a lot of different cultures. Communist Yugoslavia, the middle east, some war zones, and after all that I realized I needed to stay somewhere for awhile, so I picked a little beach community called Folly beach in Charleston, SC. Then I spent 12 years there on this pure pursuit of creativity. I had no interest in the art world or selling, I was just creating. Then I slowly grew wiser and had an opportunity to make art in Atlanta and the timing was perfect. I had hit the ceiling where I was and couldn’t grow anymore there. Lemme show some of my stuff.”

“This one’s called “Moving the Pyramid”. The turtle’s too slow and the ibis isn’t strong enough. It’s taking a spiritual center, taking the pyramid somewhere where it’s safe. That conceptual art exploration continued throughout the work. I’m working with mythology, and with symbols that have been taken and destroyed. Now I creating a vocabulary that’s working with people to communicate the bigger picture message.”

“I like this one, it seems like a lot of people take culture and try to monetize it and you’re taking monetary symbols and making it into culture.”
“Thank you.”

“Right on. Your art is very conceptual, is there a common experience you want people to have?”
“I can’t thread it with a line, but it is metaphysical. I want to communicate at the level of cave paintings or Egyptian Heiroglyphs. We don’t have a lot to believe in anymore because every things been used and misused. The way corporations use the symbols so that the true meanings get lost. My card says ‘Future Ancestors’. It’s about those that are trying to guide the world to a more conscious state.”