2017 Work — AYE!CRTV

"Aye Reason is a Lie" Mural

40 ft. x 15 ft. Aerosol on Concrete

American Mary, Seattle, Washington

"A Reason Is a Lie" - Book Cover Design

If Jules from Pulp Fiction, Neil from Heat, and Van Gogh pulled a heist while they were having an existential crisis, it would remind you of A Reason Is A Lie.

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Written by Michael Cameron Martin (@mchlcmrnmrtn).

Published by R E K N I H T, 2017. Los Angeles, CA.

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Crypt(o) Currency: Bitjamin Franklin

2ft x 4ft spray paint, acrylic(s) and epoxy resin on canvas

SOLD

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Mural for Front Street Walls via Honeygrow, LLC. [Fishtown, Philadephia]

Geometric spraye mural via Front Street Walls (@frontstreetwalls) at Honeygrow HQ (@honeygrow) at 1601 N. Front Street, Fishtown, Philadelphia, PA.

This mural painting was designed to recognize, give thanks, and motivate the ever-growing population of creatives striving to exercise their passion(s) for the betterment of their community, their loved ones, and themselves. ~ aye #SayeSomething

'Kick in the Door...' Biggie Portrait (Commission)

3ft x 4ft, 100% spraye paint on canvas, unavailable

Mural for Cycle Brewerytown

30 ft. x 15 ft. Aerosol on Concrete

Burn the Ship(s)

10 ft. x 10 ft.

Aerosol on Brick

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Saye Something [Mural Series PT1]

Outer Space via Open Space [1014 N. Marshall Street, Philadelphia, PA]

Live painting during BWC Garments (@bwcgarments) end of season pop-up sale.

BIG thanks to @ikastaway of @openspacephl for the opportunity.

This work explores the importance of choice of commitment (or lack thereof) as it relates to searching for solutions outside one’s Self(doubt).

Often, the possible success is impeded by an individual’s (un)willingness to choose to not have a(nother) choice, or commit.

If you didn’t have the option, would you consider it?

In 1519, Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes, arrived to Mexico with an appetite for the Aztec empire’s hoarded mass of gold. While weighing his army’s options to defeat the larger, formidable Aztecs in Tenochtitlan, Cortes overheard the formation of an internally propagated, mutinous plot to return to Cuba. Before his men could flee, Cortes ordered his confidants to “Burn the ships.”

If you didn’t have the option, would you consider it?

Now apply the historical anecdote to aye post-modernistic, apocalyptic scene of astronautical exploration and...

Burn the ship(s).

Odysseus' Tentacíon

36” x 48” acrylic and enamel on canvas, unavailable

By knowing the layout of the room and wall the painting would be installed on, I aimed to design a meaningful, thought-provoking, motivational piece the collector could acknowledge daily on their way out and into the world [the PATH].

Brilliance [Odysseus] is being stretched from the delicate, withering temptation [rose] while supported by the various stages to one’s life experience [cubes] in an increasingly automated [robotic] state. The first with a closed fist [too much control], the second with an open hand [not enough control], and the third holding the stem gently [balanced control] between the disappearing leaves. The last stage is proportionately even with the ambiance of the temptation as well as open, empty, full, and unknown…