Episode 24

Artist Spotlight: Chris Veal

Published on: 12th February, 2024

Dive into the latest Clover Club episode as host Erika Audrey is joined by Atlanta's renowned street artist, Chris Veal! Discover the ins and outs of a working artist's life, from his beginnings to handling criticism. Join us for an interesting little chat about art, inspiration, and creativity.

Follow Chris at @caveal

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Transcript
Speaker:

. Welcome to Clover club.

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I'm your host, Erica.

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Wait, I fucked up.

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I'm already fucking up.

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I'm gonna try this one more time.

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This is my last chance.

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, welcome to Clover club, a podcast about

curious conversations and stories and

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tended to make you laugh and learn.

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I'm your host, Erica.

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And I'm really, really excited for today's

episode because even if this guests name.

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May not ring a bell.

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I guarantee that you've seen

their work out in the world.

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So I'm really excited to be

joined by Chris veal, Chris.

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Hi.

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Hello.

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How are you?

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I'm doing good.

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Good.

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I'm glad to hear it.

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You just said hello.

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And you sounded exactly

like the Atlanta magnet man.

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Oh, Do you know that you have

like a very like similar.

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Um, I got it from him.

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I don't know being around him.

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I don't know.

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So Chris and Chris and the

Atlanta magnet, man work together.

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And, uh, you've worked

together for a little while.

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Um, but what's your, what's your

main, what's your main thing, Chris?

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Will you share with everybody what you do?

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Um, painting artists.

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Murals canvases so on.

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Yeah.

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Your work has a very

clear like pop RD, FID.

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Sometimes political vibe to it.

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, is there a more eloquent way

that you'd like to describe?

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Your style.

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Pretty much sums it up.

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Social commentary, pop art.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that about covers it.

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Awesome.

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So, has art always

been a passion of yours?

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Or how did you end up.

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It has ever since I was a little kid.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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, did you think that it would be like

a, a career or when did you decide

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it could be more than a hobby?

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I always wanted it to be.

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Um, since I was a little kid, I

wanted to make art for a living.

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That's all I really wanted to do.

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Oh, wow.

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But there was a time when it was

just like, ah, I don't know if

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it's going to work out, but you

know, It's the path of the artist.

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Yeah.

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, so I think a lot of parents

there's like a big chunk of time.

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, where their kids bring home artwork and

it's like, put this on the fridge mom.

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And it's like, oh God.

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, was your work always good?

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Um,

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No.

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I was better than most in my

class, but it wasn't like amazing

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when I was a kid or anything.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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You know, That was the kid.

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Everybody went to when they

needed something drawn or, you

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know, what school or for one.

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Or whatnot.

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Okay.

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That's cool.

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, , did you, did you go to school for it

or is it just, are you self-trained

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like, what, what was that path like?

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Uh, went to school for graphic

design because I thought that's

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how you made money in art.

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It was, you had to do graphic design.

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So I went to.

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Went to school.

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Got my degree.

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And then I got out and I was

sick of looking at computer.

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So I just went back to painting more.

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Okay.

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And just kept doing that.

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Where did you go to school?

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Uh, American Intercontinental

university in Buckhead.

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Okay.

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Did you grow up in Atlanta?

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Milledgeville Georgia.

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Ah, okay.

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Did you come into Atlanta for school

or Buckhead, but, you know, knock

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came up here because at the time

I was like partying a lot and.

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Just like Atlanta.

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It looks a lot better in my hometown as

far as like, you know, Well, you have fun.

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17.

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So it's just like, I'm

going to move to Atlanta.

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So.

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I wasn't going to go to Atlanta and

then, uh, um, I wasn't going to go

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to school when I first came here.

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But then, you know, after a few

years a party and I was like, oh,

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I got to do something with myself.

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So.

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Um, That was like, oh, go to school.

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I'll get a bunch of debt.

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So that was about it.

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The American dream.

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Oh, , okay.

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So you said you did a lot of

party and what type of scene?

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Like music.

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I would bounce around a lot.

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I would go to no.

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Wednesday's at MJQ and then

I'll go to raves on Saturday and

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then I would go to concerts and.

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I was kind of like a butterfly

bounce around to different scenes.

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Okay.

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Nice.

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, Are you still a part of

your, no, not really.

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What is your, what's your favorite way to

blow off steam and spend your free time?

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Um, Pain anymore.

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Really?

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Okay.

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I'm painting for myself or,

uh, I watch a lot of movies.

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Okay.

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That's kinda how I relax, I guess.

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Nice.

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, have you seen anything good lately?

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Um, Rewatching Tokyo vice right now is

pretty good show, but, uh, yeah, movies.

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I haven't seen anything amazing recently.

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Godzilla was.

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Um, Godzilla minus one was my

favorite movie of last year,

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but yeah, that's about it.

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It wasn't a Barbie.

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I didn't see it honestly.

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Really, I haven't seen it.

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I would think with all the

like, Pink and poppiness of it.

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I could see that being something, ah, At

the very least you'd want to make fun of.

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Nah, it was on my list to see for a bit.

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Um, and then I just got roped into

the scene, like Oppenheimer and bunch

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of other stuff I want to see, but.

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Um, I want to see it just for like the

colors and the sets and stuff like that.

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Yeah, but, uh, I haven't, I

haven't checked it out yet.

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Okay.

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Well, everyone who listened to

this podcast knows I hated Barbie.

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So you didn't miss anything.

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Okay, other than great sets.

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So watch it at home.

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You'll be all right.

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was way better.

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Nice.

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So, okay.

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A lot of your stuff is a.

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It seems like you're really good

about putting out something that's

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politically inspired or has like

a strong social commentary, , like

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in lockstep with real time.

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, will you walk me through kind of like, do

you just get like the strike of , oh my

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gosh, I've got to knock off this Michelin.

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Logo, , here's how I'm going to do it, or

is it something that brews for awhile?

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Like what's that.

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What's that process like.

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I kind of see what

people are talking about.

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Like, uh, I'll frequent, like Reddit and I

know the social media and stuff, and I'll

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see what people are talking about now.

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I think I can make

something funny out of it.

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You know, we'll so like, you know, Right

now I'm trying to figure out something

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for the Superbowl and Taylor swift and,

uh, you know, whatever people are like.

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Isn't.

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Pop culture at the time.

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Yeah, I like.

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If there's something I can

come up with, I'll try to.

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You know, come up with

it quick and get it out.

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Um, Sometimes, uh, you know, like,

oh, I want to do something for that.

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And that can't come up with anything good.

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I'm like, ah, it's been too long now.

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There's always something new to look at.

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That's fair.

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, have you ever gotten yourself into trouble

with something that you've put out?

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Um, trouble as with.

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Well, just maybe like blow back on line.

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Oh, yeah, plenty.

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Do you like it?

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Plenty of times.

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Um, I.

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Let's see, I'm trying to think

of some specific examples of.

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But, you know, like, The Trump piece.

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I did, obviously I got a lot of good.

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Feedback, but also got like a

lot of crazy feedback as well.

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Like.

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What was the Trump piece?

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Um, when Trump was, uh,

indicted here in Atlanta.

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Aye.

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New, the mugshot was coming.

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They announced when it

was going to come out.

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So I had paint and I was

waiting at a wall, like

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refreshing my phone, waiting on.

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Oh, wow.

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Waiting on the picture to get posted.

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As soon as it was posted, I

started immediately painting it.

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That's amazing.

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Um, Yeah.

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So that was a.

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That was the most recent one that I kinda

got some, I guess I got blow back on that

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from, uh, You know, a lot of Trump fans.

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I bet that it was like, okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Fox news and stuff.

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Post-it and then that really?

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Yeah.

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Kind of got a lot more

attention than I was expecting.

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So, but it also brought a lot

of, kind of negative attention to

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like people in my inbox and stuff.

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So really do you feel like the phrase

there's no such thing as bad press

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did not apply in that scenario?

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Um, I mean, I got a lot

of, got a lot of hope.

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You know, sold a lot of prints

of the piece afterwards.

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So I guess.

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Uh, I guess it went well.

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You know, Gained a bunch of new

followers and saw a bunch of new

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people, started looking at my work

and inboxing me so more bad than good.

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I mean more good than bad.

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Okay.

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Sure.

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We'll take it.

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We'll take it.

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Anything else controversial

or problematic?

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Um,

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Nothing, nothing too, nothing too bad.

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I'm trying to think.

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Uh, just can't.

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I can't pick it up off the top of my head.

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Yeah, nothing that really sticks

out that light where people, I mean,

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there's been like, you know, a couple

of things like I'll do like, um, like

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my traffic piece on, um, On Boulevard.

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I have a piece where there has

like, uh, you know, several girls

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to pick the crying and, uh, it says

this traffic I'll never get home.

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At rush hour three, then.

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Nine or whatever it says.

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Yeah.

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You know, I've had a couple of people

like message me and be like, why

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do you need to pick girls crying?

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It was just like out this,

you know, That's just how the

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image came out for that one.

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Cause they were crying because

they couldn't get home.

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But, uh, yeah, so I've gotten, you

know, a couple of messages like

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that, but uh, I think it's just

people misunderstand stuff, so yeah.

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They want men to be crying

and traffic as well.

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Yeah, I mean, , how do you receive.

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Criticism.

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How do I receive criticism?

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Um, Stuff used to bother me, but now

it doesn't really bother me anymore.

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Like I've, I've been at it so long.

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Like.

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When I first started painting

and people would pick stuff

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apart and be like, oh, the.

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The hand looks messed up or, you

know, whatever I'm like, wow, you.

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I like I would get off you.

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Anytime you put your art out there.

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You're going to have people critique

it and stuff, especially if you, when

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you start getting attention on it.

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So, yeah.

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At first.

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You know, it used to bother

me and I'm like, oh man.

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But then I'm over the over time.

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I realized that if you, um,

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It doesn't take a lot of.

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Comments to kind of bring you down.

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You know, you can get

like a thousand good.

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Good.

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The likes and comments and, oh, I love it.

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Love it.

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Love it.

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And then one comment

can cancel out all that.

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And then I was like, nah,

that's not a good ratio.

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You know, I'm like, it's true.

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It's not the only one, if only

1% of the people look at it and

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have something bad to say, then.

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I think I'm still doing pretty good.

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So.

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It doesn't bother me anymore.

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That's good.

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I think too, if you don't have

a couple heaters, you're boring.

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You're playing it too safe, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You need a little bit of that to

put some, some fuel in the tank.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it doesn't bother

me any more, but yeah.

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You know, like I said, when I was

first starting out, you know, it would

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stuff would keep me up at night, but.

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No.

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But yeah, we used to it now.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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That's fair.

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, do you have any advice for

people who are considering.

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Uh, art as a career.

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Um, yeah, skip that first

part that I just mentioned.

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Don't let this stuff bother you,

you know, the feeling, you know, if

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they're diving, if you dive into it

and you get some negative feedback.

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Yeah.

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Don't worry about it.

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Just keep painting.

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As long as you enjoy doing it.

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And, uh, Let's see other, other

advice, um, just work really hard.

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Everybody, you know, wants

to do what they love.

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And a lot of people love doing art.

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So yeah, if you want to, um, I hate

to spit a bunch of like, you know,

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hustle, culture, grind, set stuff,

but that's honestly what it takes to.

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Make it as an artist, you know,

unless you're extremely lucky.

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Yeah, well, and luck doesn't

come overnight, right?

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So it's like, you've got to grind

until it looks like you're just

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lucky and you can be super selective.

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It didn't for me.

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, so what does, will you walk us through,

like what's a typical day or week?

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Or like, what does that

hustle look like for you?

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In your world.

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Um, it changes week to week, um,

depending on what I've got going on.

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I mean, there's.

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I mean on some days I'll wake

up, you know, I'll get up at.

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Sometimes, you know, as early

as like five o'clock in the

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morning, four 30 in the morning.

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Get up.

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Go to the gym for a little bit.

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Um, From there.

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Go eat breakfast.

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Then I'll sit and draw sometimes

for, you know, hour or two.

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Relax a little bit.

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Get up.

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Check emails, respond to emails, go to

them, go to meetings, meet, look at walls.

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Um, go.

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Work on a fork on a

wall, work on a canvas.

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All day.

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And then at night, Yeah.

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Go get cleaned up, go to art show, stay at

art show until I'm ready to go to sleep.

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So nuts, uh, on weekends, that's

kinda how my week goes a lot.

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Cool.

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So for people who are curious about

getting into the art scene, but

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maybe they're not artists, what are

some of your favorite galleries or

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art events that you like to attend?

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Um, here in Atlanta, ABV.

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Uh, gallery and Cadillac gallery.

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Are there two galleries?

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I showed him mostly at.

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Um, they have really, they

both have really great shows.

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Um, run by cool people.

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Go and kind of see a lot of

the same faces each time.

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Uh, that's the kind of

scenes that I hang out in.

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Um, yeah, the more street art, uh, Newer

younger kind of people in the art scene.

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I don't go to a lot of the, like

the fancier galleries that often.

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Cool.

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Same.

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, do you, uh, Like when you look back over

the last decade or two of your career.

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Are there like little benchmark

kind of like, oh, I really

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figured out hands in 2012.

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Yeah.

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I mean every year I try to I'm.

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I'm a big goal.

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Uh, person.

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So I'll, uh, I'll set goals at the

beginning of the year of things I want to

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work on and practice and get better at.

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Okay.

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One year, it might be, oh, I'm going

to work on portraits this year.

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Hearing.

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Whenever I get free time, I'm

going to work on portraits.

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Okay.

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Um, You know, sometimes it's, oh,

I want to work on the business side

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or more, or the capturing the stuff,

making sure I get, make, you know,

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cool videos or content or whatever.

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I'll work on trying to learn that stuff.

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So, you know, I go through.

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I go through my list and try to figure

out what I need to work on more.

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Yeah.

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Pretty regularly.

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But that's good.

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At the beginning of the year is

generally the first thing I do is make

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a list of things I want to work on.

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And then I'll periodically go through it

and change it and focus on those things.

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Well, will you tell us

about your list for:

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Um, yeah.

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Let's see my list for 2024.

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I can pull it up.

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We want to know exactly what it is.

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I want to know.

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And sometimes it's not even art related.

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Sometimes it's just other

things I want to work on.

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But, uh,

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so this is always intriguing to me.

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I love a January kind of refresh.

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Yeah.

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I have multiple, um, multiple lists as

far as things to get done in my phone.

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So nice.

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Yeah, I keep some for, uh, Like for

this year, I want to go to the worst.

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That's my list.

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Uh, this is my short look.

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I have a short term school lists.

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Long-term school list.

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Um, you know, paint the biggest.

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Sometimes they'll be like paint,

the biggest wall I've ever done.

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Like.

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That's my goal for that year

is I want to find the biggest

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wall and paint the biggest wall.

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What is the biggest wall

you've done thus far?

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Um, Uh, there's one on Memorial drive.

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That's 230 feet long.

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Yeah.

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Um, so it's about 17 feet at

the high, and then it slopes

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down until about three feet.

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Um, but this year I have one.

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Uh, plan to do one that's a little bigger.

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How long does it take to

do something that big.

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Um, that one took about a week

and a half, maybe two weeks.

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Okay.

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I have like solid 10 hour

days, like just grinding on it.

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Yeah.

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Damn.

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And then square footage.

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That's the longest, but square footage

was, um, I did a parking deck in Buckhead

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where it was in the middle of COVID.

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Um, I had a larger square footage and

had to use a lift and, you know, Navigate

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the lifts around lights and stuff.

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And, but I only had nine days to do it in.

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So.

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We were doing me and my assistant were

both working like 12 hour days every day.

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And one day we worked price 16

hours or something until people

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came and kicked us out and they

were like, y'all got to leave.

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Oh wow.

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People are sleeping.

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It's like one in the morning.

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I'll have to, I'll have to shut it down.

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So.

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But that's dedication.

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That's the grind.

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He was referring to everybody.

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Yeah, I had plantar

fasciitis at the time, too.

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Oh, I was hopping.

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Like I could limping.

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Like hardly walking out there, but

we only had nine days to get it done.

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So.

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It had to be done, had to get it done.

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Do you know, the tennis ball trick.

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Uh, yeah.

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Um, no.

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No.

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The only thing that helped

my foot was, um, uh, soaking

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it in ice every single night.

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Um, and again, And a lot of stem cells.

448

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Gotcha.

449

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It's all shot in my foot and

that helped, but you're good now.

450

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Yeah, I'm great.

451

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Now.

452

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Okay.

453

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Yeah.

454

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Wonderful.

455

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Yep.

456

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Um, Chris, you mentioned earlier, before

we started recording that you've broken a

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ton of bones because you used to be a BMX.

458

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Yep.

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Yeah.

460

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I rode BMX a lot.

461

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Um,

462

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As a kid going into my twenties and in

my, throughout my twenties, I rode a BMX.

463

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Uh, many hours a day, probably four

or five hours a day, most days.

464

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Oh, wow.

465

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Okay.

466

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Like competitively.

467

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Um, yeah, I will travel and do I

competed expert class and I would

468

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travel around and, you know, to BMX

contest and stuff with my friends

469

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and cool and take road trips and.

470

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You got a ride in other

cities and all that fun stuff.

471

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What an awesome, like.

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Vehicle to travel.

473

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You know what I mean?

474

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, yeah.

475

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Yeah.

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It kind of sucked, like,

cause you got to take a bike.

477

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You know when you're.

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Traveling on a plane, you know, you got to

break the bike apart and put it in a bag.

479

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I hope security.

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Doesn't find it and

charge you extra for it.

481

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I mean, it was, uh, it was kind

of a hassle, but it was really

482

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cool to like, get to travel around

and make friends in that scene.

483

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And you know, this.

484

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I'd see them in.

485

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You know, Pennsylvania then I

don't see them in new Orleans.

486

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It seemed in Tennessee and you'd

see all the same people like

487

:

gathered around in different cities.

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So.

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It's like a, I mean, it's much like the

art scene is big community and, but.

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You know, everybody

kind of knew each other.

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Yeah, I love that.

492

:

, okay.

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So you're in the BMX community,

you're in the art community.

494

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Are there any other like hobbies that have

led you into these wonderful communities?

495

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Um, yeah, I actually got a lot,

uh, I got a bunch of hobbies.

496

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And I, I pushed them hard when I,

when I get into something I like.

497

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Yeah, I'm kind of obsessive about them.

498

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Um, I love playing pool.

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I play a lot of I'll play a lot of pool.

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I grew up in a pool hall play pool.

501

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Okay.

502

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Uh, but art's kind of consumed.

503

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Consumed me for the past, like

seven years, that's a, it's kind

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of taken over everything, so.

505

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Okay.

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Do you find that the business side

of things came naturally to you?

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Not really.

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Um, but I did recognize pretty early on.

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I'm like, okay, like, You can be

the best artists in the world.

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And if you can't handle the

business side or the, you know,

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Communicating your work to people,

then you're not going to get anywhere.

512

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I know some groups.

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Amazing artists that can't

really sell that much work.

514

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Yeah.

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And because they don't

know how to talk to people.

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They don't know how to, you know,

get in those rooms and meet people

517

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and, you know, just, they don't, I

don't even think most of them care.

518

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They just they're true artists.

519

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They like just.

520

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Live to want to create the art

and that's all they care about.

521

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But if your goal is to sell

art, it doesn't really.

522

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Translate very well.

523

:

Like you have to have the social

side and you have to get out and meet

524

:

people and shake hands and stuff.

525

:

Yeah.

526

:

Cause otherwise it, you know, And I

know some people are terrible artists

527

:

that can sell a ton of work because

they're really good at talking to people.

528

:

Yeah.

529

:

Um, I try to balance and try to

get in the middle ground and.

530

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You know, really focus on the art,

but also try to like, You know,

531

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Handle the business

side stuff, things too.

532

:

And, you know, getting up

and getting those spaces.

533

:

Yeah.

534

:

Do you have any tips or resources

or like, were there any ahas.

535

:

Earlier in your career where

you were like, okay, fuck.

536

:

I got to like lock in on this.

537

:

I'm going to start doing things this way.

538

:

So I can really start making some money

off of this or was it kind of organic?

539

:

Um, I guess it was kind

of organic there's.

540

:

Um, I don't have any

like aha moments for me.

541

:

I mean, everybody seems to be different.

542

:

I've seen people dive in and.

543

:

Come on seem to come out of nowhere.

544

:

I mean, I've been in Atlanta painting

a long time, so I've kind of built it

545

:

over, you know, built my following over

time here and met people over time.

546

:

But, uh, and then some, sometimes

people will pop up there.

547

:

You know, a year later, they're

like where I w where I felt like I

548

:

was like, you know, 10 years later.

549

:

So, I don't think there's any, you

know, Just either try to be real or

550

:

that, you know, and don't like, uh,

Try to force your cell phone people.

551

:

So like, sometimes people

are like, come to me.

552

:

I'm like, oh, how do

I get in this gallery?

553

:

I've messaged them a hundred times.

554

:

I'm like, yeah.

555

:

That's, that's not how

you get in that gallery.

556

:

You don't.

557

:

You can't like cold call people.

558

:

That much.

559

:

Um, You know, Becomes an annoyance

and, and that's most galleries.

560

:

They want to already see

you doing stuff and see you.

561

:

You know, selling pieces because you

know, the, the goal of, of galleries.

562

:

It's to sell pieces.

563

:

So if they see you're making moves,

if they see you're selling work,

564

:

they'll, they'll come to you.

565

:

Okay.

566

:

That's great.

567

:

Good to know.

568

:

Is there anything that people

would be just like shocked to

569

:

learn either about you or about

just like the life of an artist?

570

:

I'm not, I don't want to

thinking things super shocking.

571

:

Uh, Um, kind of really a boring guy.

572

:

I paint a lot.

573

:

I, uh, I'm kind of a homebody.

574

:

I stay at home a lot now.

575

:

I paid.

576

:

Uh, and that's.

577

:

That's really all I do and all that.

578

:

I kind of think about most of the time

it's just like making work and, uh, And,

579

:

you know, whatever my next project or

current project I'm on, that's kind of

580

:

where my mind is, but, uh, all consuming.

581

:

Yeah.

582

:

It really is at this point and probably to

a, to a bad point, you know, like I, uh,

583

:

I started like really diving

in to art, like pretty heavily,

584

:

uh, about seven years ago.

585

:

Seven to eight years ago.

586

:

And at the time I did it as a

distraction now I'm like, okay.

587

:

Yeah.

588

:

And now it's just like routine, not just.

589

:

Paint a lot.

590

:

That's what I do.

591

:

Yeah, that's great though.

592

:

Yeah, you obviously enjoy it.

593

:

So, yeah, that's all the matters.

594

:

Well, Chris, will you let people know

where they can find you in your work?

595

:

Um, you can find me on

Instagram at CA veal.

596

:

Um, I actually don't have a website.

597

:

I don't use a website.

598

:

I don't use flyers.

599

:

That's a, that's on my list

of things to do actually is.

600

:

For this year.

601

:

Finally, maybe make a website.

602

:

So I might do that this year.

603

:

Perfect.

604

:

Um, but yeah, you can search Chris.

605

:

or, um, Or just see a bill on Instagram.

606

:

Okay.

607

:

Perfect.

608

:

, well, Chris, thank you

so much for your time.

609

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, hopefully you guys learned a lot

about Chris and his artistic ways.

610

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, as always, you get 10%

off@hawkinsandclover.com

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with promo code Clover club.

612

:

And you can find us on

Instagram at Clover club pod.

613

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And Chris, thank you so

much again for your time.

614

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Really appreciate it.

615

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Yeah, no problem.

616

:

Thank you.

617

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Thank you.

618

:

Bye.

619

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Yeah.

620

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Yeah.

621

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Easy.

622

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Easy peasy.

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