DO-IT
In the world of graffiti, you have to realize that whatever your tag is, you will be re-writing that tag literally millions of times over the course of your life. Each one is different, each one is original by its nature, but they are all inherently the same. The amount of variation that this leads to is infinite, but it can also be pretty damn repetitive and exhausting if you don’t either love the shit out of that tag, or find ways to see it as something totally abstract and without context. DO-IT has taken this to a level I’ve never encountered before. Yes, his paintings are amazing, and I love his simplification of letterforms to within a hairsbreadth of the abstract, but even more than that I love the work he’s doing on wood, playing with the configuration of wooden pieces into panels and also the forms that are painted onto them. He’s certainly not the first person to build a canvas out of wood pieces, but he’s the first that I’ve seen who takes the time to consider their configuration in terms of what will be covering them and vice versa. Separately they would be excellent art, together they’re something altogether more beautiful. In case you can’t tell, I’m a fan.
