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hope you’ll follow along for the journey ✨

got to bring @karpfern and Bearsy to see the new mural with the original sculpture too ✨ (bonus - a little of the process)

“Toot” - spray painted from a photo of original sculpture by Jerry Karp aka @jer.bots 👻 📍Melrose and Alta Vista (Behind Frankie’s)

The fire alarm is a central component in many of my dad’s sculptures. In addition to the large format paintings of his pieces, the JERBOTS series includes smaller component level studies of some of the elements that repeat in his work. Painting these objects gives me a chance to put little remixed twists on the classics and inject a little more personal narrative into the collection. This week I’m starting three new large paintings and another robot mural so if I can’t hang out it’s because I’m trying to make the people in the second photo proud. Thank you @photographyartl for the first photo 📸 - love how well the @bandit__graffiti mural works with the fire alarm. ✌🏼🫶🏼

“CEASE FIRE ALARM” - spray paint on canvas, 24” x 30” 🔴 original sold but prints will be dropping soon created for the show in support of @weare_refugee curated by @guerillaone x @wrdsmth photos: 1) me in the studio after a 14 hour paint session 2) @wrdsmth in @thefameyard 3) @photographyartl ft. @dashknowdirection 4) @kellie.gillespie.art (traffic violation not shown)

keys to locks that don’t exist 🗝️

my united states of whatever

“Hello, little one. We can’t know what the future’s going to hold. Just as every one of our histories is unique to ourselves, so this animal too, will have its own story” (Sir David Attenborough talking to a meerkat)

In honor of national fried chicken sandwich day here’s some life soup from the past few months. been working really hard on some new juice that will certainly be worth the squeeze. 😘

First of many father / son collabs 🥰🤖

Back in business… For Father’s Day this year I wanted to honor my dad by painting one of his found object sculptures and letting the world experience the whimsy and imagination of his craft. Day one of this mural I fell and broke my heel and so began a grueling recovery. Eight weeks later, as soon as I was able to drive and hobble on both feet again, I came back to finish what I started. Truthfully, resuming the piece was my North Star in getting back to health - it was almost all I could think about as I watched so many of my friends coming out here and crushing their parts of this restoration project curated by @wrdsmth it was so hard to be patient and not rush back sooner than would have been safe. I had a lot of time to rest, reflect, and watch as my universe came to a crawl but now we baaaaaaack and ready to light the city tf up. RIP JK your art lives on through me, I miss you every day. Flicks coming when there isn’t a mf suv parked directly in front of the piece in that good light 🙄 S/o to @8nh.art for a legendary assist and thank you to the amazing team at @cedarssinai for patching me up so I could do what I do!

Life lately… what a month 📈📉📈📉📈