You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.
As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes fro… - Jose Parla
As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes fro…
- Jose Parla
The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present. - Jose Parla
The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.
My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting. - Jose Parla
My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.
When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and… - Jose Parla
When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and…
One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a… - Jose Parla
One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a…
If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladder… - Jose Parla
If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladder…
I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world. - Jose Parla
I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.
Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory. - Jose Parla
Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.
People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it… - Jose Parla
People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it…
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