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Ric Blackshaw: First off, could you tell me a bit about your background, and what inspired you to begin making street art and street interventions?
Roadsworth: I’m actually a musician by training, but growing up I was exposed to visual art in different forms partly because my mother was an artist, and many of her friends were artists as well. One of my first babysitters for example, would take us to art galleries and get us to draw and make stuff out of clay. Throughout most of my life, my primary focus has been music, but I always took a side interest in visual art. |  | |
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Masha Sumtsova: Who are you and what do you do?
Gaia: My name is Gaia. I am a street artist currently enrolled in art school in Baltimore. The work that I am most known for is based in block printing utilizing animal motifs generally as an emotive, or signaling tool. My work is very much founded in a tradition of narrative, amongst other things.I am generally concerned with methods and situations of domination. I mean I guess my work is informed by the Christian, Western approach to animals, which in turn is a reflection of our approach to the other. |  | |
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| While artist David Kastner’s paintings, photographic prints, light installations, and wall sculptures have the swirling energy of many abstract works, they also suggest something quite different: the murmuring of numerous voices beneath each layer. The artist’s work has changed greatly over the years, and is seldom truly abstract. He courageously goes beyond the given and familiar, pioneering new techniques and materials in order to expand his own vision. The works on display at his recent solo exhibition at the Broadway Gallery in New York were no exception. Experiencing life feels like inhaling fresh air. It’s not like you take a book, read a chapter, and you’ve gained this or that. |  | |
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| I first experienced New York City without being able to speak. Coming from Japan, I felt the language and culture were barriers, and it was as though I had a communication disability. Street art broke that wall for me. In the media studies, I agreed with Marshall McLuhan’s idea that media is an extension of the body: street art is my media and the extension of my body that enables me to communicate with the city; it is my language. |  | |
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| I have a problem with public advertisements. Unlike TV, radio, the Internet, or magazine ads, people are forced to look at public advertisements. It’s naive to think these campaigns are harmless. These ad campaigns are aggressive. Aggressive because the public’s voice is marginalized. Aggressive because only those who can afford the space are allowed the use of these very public outlets. Aggressive because these campaigns represent a system that has been relentless in its attack on the environment and the poor. A system that puts monetary gains over all else. |  | |
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