Early drawings - New York 2001-2002 and rant

heya

so these drawings are kind of the first drawings I did after I decided to

officially try and be a practising artist.

I was living in Williamsburg Brooklyn and in love.

All of these drawings were done in one go one night in an attic apartment in Weehaken New Jersey ( my boyfriend at the times' place )

Weehaken is a town just on the other side of the Hudson River perched high on a cliff face over looking Manhattan

it was a fantastic sight to see the city unfold as you exited the tunnel in the gypsy bus ( or `Talibus` as we called it .. thinking we would be blown up inside the tunnel by the driver - yes people were scared ) that left from Port Authority / 42nd Street every 20 mins

It was both a beautiful time in my life and also frightening as September 11th happened during this time and the city shifted in many fundamental ways...never to be the same

funnily enough, the drawings are about my home where I spent the first 10 years of my life and the isolation and need to escape from the suburban hum drum and vice

~

Dario

Phillip Mohr residence/Karkula - Murals

Karkula Mural 2001

mohr mural 2002

yo !

this was the 2nd mural / commission for me

it was for the architect Phillip Mohr at his loft in the old sugar mill in

Williamsburg Brooklyn - an amazing space - just a concrete bunker really with little furniture and no art

my payment was a beautiful ring made especially for me by Phillip ( he also makes amazing Jewellry ) and dinner ( I think )

it was completed in late 2002 and admired by many but alas, Phillip fell on hard times and had a slut model move in with her slut boyfriend who proceeded to paint over my mural without consent as it was ` too scary `...whore

I had previously done my first mural at Karkula Gallery ( where I worked ) which is the first pic, recently the business re-located and the fate of the mural is in the new tenants hands ..

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Dario

heroes

truman capote

jean cocteau

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