I started drawing when I was a kid, probably because I was too lazy to get up and do anything else. Movies like Beat Street and Wild Style were the first things that made me think, “Hey, I could do that... sort of.” So, I picked up a can of spray paint and made a mess on a few walls. Naturally, I got bored of that and moved on to other ways of making stuff that looks like art, like, you know... actual art.

At 19, I bought a Macintosh computer because that’s what you did back then if you didn’t want to actually learn anything real. I started using programs like Painter, which was basically a cheat code for making art fast—so much faster than graffiti or anything else that involved effort.

Then, I went to art school, where I excelled at graphic design and photography. Mostly because they let me stay inside and not interact with people. From there, I jumped into advertising. At Ogilvy, I worked with big brands. I made “creative” campaigns that supposedly caught people’s attention, but let’s be honest, nobody remembers anything unless it’s a cat video on the internet.

Now, I’m still trying to push the limits of what I can do, mostly just to prove to myself that I haven’t completely wasted my life. Photography and art are still my thing—though, at this point, it’s more about finding new ways to make something that looks like it might actually matter, even if it doesn’t.