sb1 part 3

I recently scanned some of my old sketch books. Whoa intense, even for myself. These images are from 2004 to 2006. When I started this sketchbook I was taking Diamedidrene Exxtreme, playing tennis at 11 pm and doing my last semester of uni. I went to a woman's college at the time so there are a lot of vagina, boobs, lesbian haircuts, lesbian facial hair, chicks with dicks. This volume ended in a little after I moved to Italy and includes some amendments as well a copious amounts of cock.

When keeping a sketchbook I tend to just open a page and work on it. It really does not matter if there is something else drawn or written on it because if it were important then I would have already processed Images take on an extremely layered look, nonsensical and formulated at the same time. 

Your Lay lines Remind me of how spiritual you are.

I still wish I was as cool as your pants.

Happy Accident

Five Fingers

Promises promises

The Whimp

Remember Me?

Sacradotto 

You Are Here,

The good wife.

sketchville

mio deserto arte moda

Various pieces from my Mio Deserto days (2006-2009).

Top- 2007 Giovanni's snake with butterfly wings that I made playing god with a photocopier and Dover book.
Middle-2006 business card made by gluing cutout letters on another business card and making a print of it.
Bottom-2006 Flyer for our first show at the house on Via Degli Alfani

2007- Deconstructed poster from our shop on Via Fiesolana "MIO DESERTO ARTE MODA CULT SHOP"

2008-Garibaldi poster on an economics book with "mio deserto" in Japanese script by Kaol.

Poster Detail

"Cruise" 2007 Mio Deserto shop poster printed on a map. 

2007- I used a French font source book and a couple of rub transfer font sheets from the 70's to create this logo. This is about the time hipsters started to bother me.

a detail of the color breakdown of the font. This example is printed on  an old history book.

   

This poster was printed with lesbians in mind, It combined the new font with imagery taken from an Italian elementary school geography book.

    

A brain storming sheet in one of my sketch books, I really liked 100% Italian hand job. It also has the third  generation of our label, It was a stamp made from a print made from a sewn label. It was the ultimate in feedback loop.

The last incarnation of the label during my tenure was a Gothic high German  font with a  medieval skeleton in the middle. I designed this logo to go with the We are all 1 prints in 2009. The bottom photo was the back room of the Mio Deserto shop on Via Fiesolana showing Garibaldi flag, one of my murals, and various other sight specific art works.

sketchville 2 the electric boogaloo

 When keeping a sketchbook I tend to just open a page and work on it. It really does not matter if there is something else drawn or written. I respond to and create images that are richly layered and organically formulated.This volume ended in a little after I moved to Italy and includes some amendments as well a copious amounts of cock.

Steak fingers and gravy (one families genetic curse)

(prolapse) Why do all the drawings you do look so similar??

Feel Better

horse hung

your bob keeps stabbing me in the side of the face

mild resurrections

Doe eyes and knocked knees.

She single?

italian knitwear

Happy Birthday

working girl

I made this print in 2010, It was part of a series called "The Meat Chaser". In particular my grandmothers first job in Saudi Arabia after she left my grandfather.  

Around the same time I co-founded a production studio with cousin Davide called co and co.  This is the final logo. It is a composit of transfer letters vinyl tape and stamp. On the left is the logo before being turned into the single color print on the right. I made a few photocopies to explore  placement of the production studio script, those photocopies ended up in my studio.

and then I started printing

 untill the ink  and or paper is done.
I fully endorse a humans right to cover or uncover their body in any way they deem  fit and or sacred. 

life in sketchville 2004

When keeping a sketchbook I tend to just open a page and work on it. It really does not matter if there is something else drawn or written. I respond to and create images that are richly layered and organically formulated.

Smile the world Hates you!

Bath Time

Summer of blood 2004

Pirate was the trend, people smelled like old vintage, 2004.

coven (prostetic heads)

Spectors

confronting ideals (I wish I was as cool as you)

€25,000

Steal her personality before she steals your man

Lucky crapface (notes on a crackhead)

I was living upstairs from a lesbian crackhead.