Color Cartel Studio

Stilo Helmet painted for the good folks behind . 🏆🏎️💨⚡️💨⚡️💨

An abstract-surreal mural as a celebration of the drive and the flow. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Uniquely, the entire car collection here is American, so for the subject I took inspiration from the first Detroit Grand Prix in 1982. (They ran a street course. John Watson won from 17th for McLaren-Ford. Lauda, his teammate, locked wheels with another driver in an aggressive pass attempt, crashed into a wall - DNF). I will post detail shots in another post 🏎️💨💨💨

“Grow where you’re planted.”
The Norse settlers in Greenland had no interest in eating the fish all around them. Unwilling to break tradition, they starved and vanished.
To me, “grow where you’re planted” means staying sensitive to my natural sources of energy, strength, and knowledge.
Make art feel like breathing—just wear a respirator.

This painting on wood “Mic Check N°2” used to be the easel on which I hung and painted other paintings. The layers are more or less organic from overspray, and off-canvas paint tests, and elements from a year of paintings completed on it.

The painting has a French cleat, but the dense concrete wall was not cooperating. So we strung a chain through a pair of race tow straps and hung it from rafters. A wrap of this painting is being used on a BMW Racecar this season (saving the photo for when that is revealed, soon though!), which is exciting!

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