Revival Pressure SHOK (1995)
April 8th, 2009
Part of a massive canvas myself and some friends did at an event.
I used to like doing these pieces made from different bits – I often had too many ideas I wanted to try out to base a whole piece on one.
Reads – “SHOK”. Jelly style “S” (this will become the organic style a few years later), the “H” is a box of cans tipping out, a gangster apple for the “O” and a straight letter “K” with a crumpled paper background.
Patchwork SHOK (1995)
March 27th, 2009
A proper Frankenstein’s monster of a piece made out of other pieces chopped up and reassembled.
Mutha’s Pride SHOK (1995)
March 26th, 2009
Freshly sliced bread style “SHOC!” complete with the bread knife. A real mutha for ya, yeah.
Stormy SHOK (1995)
January 7th, 2009
The pain of painting outside in England.
A “SHOK 1″ wildstyle, inside the letters – sun, rain, sun, rain … I painted the actual sky behind the wall but with a storm. I think I did it too well actually, you can’t tell where the wall ends and reality starts.
There’s a Lancaster bomber with parachuting apples at top right. It re-emerged from my subconscious much later on in the “Word at War” piece.
Note that I shout out “K-Nan” at the end … that’s what I called Kilo’s granny who used to put me up when I was down painting. She used to make us frozen pizza with oven chips and smoke unfeasibly large jays in a tiny council flat – I’d be contact high-di-high.
