Mr. Hooper
Artist Statement
I create visual narratives shaped by my interest in historical
figures and popular icons, as well as outsider art, b-movies
and American roots music. My work is a landscape of decaying
buildings on city streets littered with countless characters
both real and imaginary. It is stream-of-consciousness storytelling
inspired by dreams, but rooted in real life experiences. Major
themes that I explore are loneliness, vice, self-desrtuctive
behavior and human folly. These tales are told through the voice
of a middle class kid from Nashville, in the only language I
know.