I was involved in a gallery last sunday after fuse at Cottonwood (our church). Got the notice from our good friend Robert Favela three weeks ago, got started two weeks ago , and finalized the piece two hours before the gallery opened last Sunday (almost a week ago). The whole process stretched to about a week although i did miss a few days due to good ol' fashioned laziness. The piece is a painting i did of my nephew R.J. (a.k.a. RED in superfuture) hence the title "MY NEPHEW". Let me brief you a little bit about this kid. RJ was recently picked to be a part of superfuture's "the dirty dozen". Only 12 individuals were hand picked from around the globe in this process. They are to wear one super rare custom made Evisu denim and pass it around to each of the twelve individuals where each will have a few weeks to get intimate with the denim. It's a pretty big deal and a great honor in the denim world to be apart of this crazyness so I'm very proud of him. You might be thinkng to yourself "ew, that's nasty!!". Yes it is, but you should see RJ and Gabe (my other nephew) live together in one room. Enough about RJ and Gabe(I'm sure you'll hear more about these guys in later time). Let's skip to the painting. Got the idea from a photo Eya shot of RJ outside the S.F. federal building last year. It was a dope photo so I collaboed' with it. Photos taken of the night were pretty ehhh but that's only because it was a busy tug and pull kind of a night.
this one is the photo Eya took.
this is the video of the bird logo being hand painted on the back pockets.
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5 comments:
Oh wow. I super like your painting. And it's not only 'cos I'm digging the leather jacket that your nephew has on. That's a cool one right there, it's very mod ;)
it's actually a junya watanabe leather jacket he got from barneys. Thanks for your kind words by the way.
i. feel. important.
*tear*
anyways, i like the painting. you should probably donate it to the "museum of rj" that im going to build when im 72.
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