re: new mural images!!!!

Hello Lovers,

it's been awhile and i apologize, i've been busy working on a variety of projects and life in general. here are some images from a mural i did with several TREC youth at a building called the "Emerald Centre," here in Kamloops, BC. It's an emergency shelter for men and women and they wanted something positive, with roots, balance, and vibrant and bright.

Legal walls and murals are a strange beast in this town, to get this project off the ground from concept to completion took over three months. the actual work on the mural took 10 days. weird eh?
But at least we did it and it was great fun, and the first time i've ever worked with a crew of all boys, or teenage boys.

so, here are some images for you!!!

cheers,


cb.

re a few close ups of the walls...

hello lovers,

a few close ups of the walls at the unit/pitt gallery in vancouver, bc. by now, all this work is long gone, sanded down and repainted by Brynn, one of the coolest gallery assistants i've ever met. 

don't ask about the art, i only know Take 5 did the cool wildstyle piece and Bracken did the cool ovoid looking alien things. not sure who did the thunderbird or ocm, but i was told it was the same person. very cool stuff.

it was really amazing to paint on the walls of an art gallery. liberating. the last few shows i've curated have been all about disrupting the played out and boring gallery rules. art should be visceral. dirty. not all clean and sterile white wall gallery standard shows. so done. so lifeless. so soulless. so lame. i'm from the streets, and the underground, and i want art to move from the confines of a canvas or a frame or a project and move along the walls and into your mind. 

street art is perfect for that in galleries, and it is here today, gone tomorrow and i love and loathe that aspect of it. it takes so much time, effort and MONEY to get good at it, and then some dumb ass toy comes along and wrecks it. or some graffiti task force jackass comes along and blands it out with monkey shit green, bored suburban house wife beige, and battleship grey......

anyways, happy monday people,

cb

OCM did this i believe.

kamloops own TAKE 5

did this, a legend in the graffiti scene

nationally even.

i think david wrote stuff on the walls.

cease wyss did this stencil

from the thunderbird restaurant. 

part of the original piece i did

fire is cleansing

it represents many things

in this piece.

bracken hanuse corlett

did the circular UFO things and 

left behind these two.

keith higgins

CEO, COO, CFO

and ruler of the Unit/Pitt domain

and you get a sense of the scope

and size of these works.

that's my kyoti throwie bomb

in front of Mt. Peter and Mt. Paul

in Kamloops, BC.

the green line represents the pulse

the heartbeat

and it got slower

as it left the land and the forest

and went into the city.

most of my work has visual metaphors

so if you  know that much

you can see that much more

in my work

i like to layer things 

and make people work for it.

i did.

until next time lovers,

cb

ps: it's nice when projects come together

my whole life people said

i'd never be where i am today.

fuck you

good thing i didn't listen. 

re: home sweet home.....

ahhhh, home, i love it and hate it! hahaha

anyway lovers,

don't get me wrong, i love traveling, i love making art, i love meeting new peoples, i love wrecking new places, but it's nice to get back home. plus, i usually do extended tours, or am gone a week or six at a time. all my plants have died, well, not all, i've got four that are heartily still giving it a go. haha.

but i miss my kids dearly, and even though each trip is supposed to expand my mind, or my group of contacts, i don't really believe it is always that beneficial? the art world, like any world is full of liars, sycophants, double talkers, back stabbers and the like, but it is also full of potential patrons, friends, lovers, leavers, and the like, so it really is a fun way to navigate the world.

just be smart. or stupid. whatever. hahahaha, don't take advice from me.

i am just as capable of self-sabotage as well as anyone else! and i often do it by accident, and sometimes by design! hahahahahahah.

anyway, here's some images from the road.

enjoy!

cb

the wall i painted at 180 projects/gallery

in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Reggie's, a great dive pub/bar in SSM,

it reminds me of the Central Pub in Kamloops.

a lot.

dials, gadgets, spinners and things.

my baby, i missed her. 

she's always by my bed. 

waiting for some action.

re: post number 666 the number of the beast.....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the
beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short...
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the
beast for it is a human number,
its number is Six hundred and sixty six......

i can't believe i've had this many posts, and where i've been and back since i started this blog, my life has changed for the better in so many ways. i'm doing what i want now for a living, instead of being told what to do. i've taken charge of my life and opportunities that come my way, and continue pursing the dream. whatever that means. i just want things to get better and better and travel more, make more art, music, films and write more books......so stay tuned, things will keep on keepin' on!

thanks for your support and love,

cheers,

cb

click on the link for the awesome video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlSidenJ5-E

oh yeah, here's a dope graffiti mural video too that i dig from ironlak art stars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQrEUWPzF8Q&feature=related