About H.

I’m a street expressionist who hails from Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve been around music & art my entire life and I’m sure that’s the way that I’ll be remembered. I was never good at sports but I enjoyed my attempts at playing. The only books that I ever wanted to read were the ones with a lot of pictures in them. I wasn’t really into chasing girls because, it always took too much time to catch them. I grew up in the projects as the oldest of three and my parents rarely talked to me like I was a child. I never got into fights much because, that wasn’t the mentality I rolled with. I wasn’t the class clown nor was I the school’s nerd but, my teachers always took an interest in me. There wasn’t a person I knew, who didn’t know that I drew… and I didn’t go around advertising it. I just knew a lot of people, who also knew a lot of people… but not many of them were doing what I did.

As far as being inspired to draw, there was one artist whose style I’ll always admire. I used to see his work in the subways of New York and I never knew it was an actual artist who’d done it. I thought his pictures were posters because, they were drawn where posters had usually hung. That was until the day I was able to see some of the pictures up close. They were stories without words in a series of frames that aligned on a subway stop. The characters were drawn in chalk because, the poster boards were all covered in black. I never asked what the artist’s name was… I was too busy trying to read through the pictures. As I got older, I saw them in more places and was able to decipher them at a much faster pace. The drawings were on t-shirts, stop-signs, billboards and even in magazines. The chalk had changed to colors and the stories became more in-depth. His characters, who never had a face… showed more expression to me than any person could. I finally found out what the artist’s name was and connected his style to the stories he told.

- profile picture by Tokio Art.