Even as a kid I tried to be as accurate as possible. Clean lines and perfection were always the order of the day. When I started writing Graffiti in the summer of 1985, I had no idea the impact it would have on me. Within a few months I was completely consumed by it. I wanted to be one of those guys in Spraycan Art or Subway Art that everyone was looking at for inspiration. And I thought it was something that would come quickly and fairly easy,.not so.Time, sweat, chases, jail, fines, community service, losing friends, losing jobs, fights, getting shot at, getting vicked or demoralized by better writers. The bad, at times, was really bad. Today, and for the past five or six years I've been known worldwide as Joker.the abstract guy. I worked my way up to it. Not knowingly. Lately I've been working mostly with Acrylics and the familiar spraycan. I've begun using digital elements in my work and even trying to work completely in digital, though never giving up on canvas. The strange part of this is that now I feel in the same place I was back in 1985. Part of a new artistic medium and just starting to see where it can take me...where I can take it. Like my mark in Graffiti.