We were please to print these for Urban Muse in their campaign...here is a little about "URBAN-MUSE" ------->
I designed the MUSE sticker in the Fall of 2009, and it is the logical extension of a campaign I started in late 2007, dealing with the phrase "urban-muse"I made the original image by hand by carving a block of linoleum and then making a print of it on a rolling press. The girl used is a famous alt model I became enamored with and as a result was inspired to draw, and paint her numerous times, including a 10 foot mural sized Oil Painting. If it wasn't for this singular person I would not be an artist today. She changed my life forever, for the better.I think all art regardless of style, technique, or any other factor needs to have one important thing: It needs to be honest. To me the MUSE sticker with the crying, rough, and stoic face to me symbolizes everything I believe in as an artist and as a person, and is the most honest thing I have ever created. At one point in my life I feel I treated a person very close to my unkindly, and took her for granted, I threw away the only person who ever truly loved me with her heart and soul. She left me a photo on my iMac of her sitting at my desk with her hair parted to the side, and tears streaming down her beautiful face. That image has stuck in my head all these years later (about 4), and has largely shaped the course of my life. As a result i've tried to become a better person. I regret how I treated her, and instead of dwelling on all this negativity and I want to do something incredibly positive with it, and hopefully inspire other people, to draw, paint, compose, or even just be kind. The simple word MUSE I think is incredibly important and powerful to anyone in the creative field and even people who might not even think they are creative at all. Everyone has a muse, it might be a girl, a boy, an event, a piece of music, or even a pet or something. But everyone has that one thing that has the capability to set you off and unleash something great that you might not have thought you were even capable of. The muse sticker has been distributed extensively throughout the world, sticker shows, and the San Francisco Bay area. When the sticker is in an "urban" environment it quite literally becomes the physical embodiment of "urban-muse." The sticker has been mistaken for something to do with the British Rock Band "MUSE," and this is not the case but I do happen to like that band quite a great deal. In early 2010 The San Francisco Museum of Modern art started distributing stickers that said "MUSE" on them in honor of their 75th anniversary, it's a pretty interesting coincidence and the stickers are similar, but my sticker predates it slightly. I highly encourage every person, to search for their own personal muse. To my Muse "X", I cannot thank her enough for letting her me use her image in a lot of my work. And to the girl who It was originally based on...I know she must see it in the streets often, and I hope she just knows... I am sorry.
