Focus 13 - MATTHEW CURRY

URL: www.ninjacruise.com
Location: Washington DC, USA

What inspires your illustration and art work?
In my illustrations , I have quite the affinitiy for things I grew up absorbing and looming over for hours on end, ie. comic books, cartoons, children's books,anime,graffiti.These are cultural phenomenons in their own right and they definitley burned themselves on my subconscious. My paintings and drawings have these inspirations as well, but, I look to societal issues, religion...the writings on the wall in human nature. The urban toxins that grow beautiful inhabitants-such as, architecture covered in aged graffiti, old storefront signage,and the ravages of time in general. And, of course, the faces of the people who reside in such places and the art they create by just being.